Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!csun!mx.csun.edu!mst From: mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Appletalk File Transfer Message-ID: <1990Nov28.004710.10149@csun.edu> Date: 28 Nov 90 00:47:10 GMT References: <1301@ucl-cs.uucp> <1990Nov21.235137.3542@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1990Nov23.200722.24469@csun.edu> <36276@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@csun.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: mst@secs.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) Organization: School of Engineering and Computer Science, CSU Northridge Lines: 33 In article <36276@cup.portal.com> MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes: >mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) writes: > >>WARNING: >> Although Oscar is cute (especially if you install Moof) it >> does open you system up to some joker sending you virused >> files without your consent. We recognized this fact when we >> were playing with it here and decided against it. > >You should be using anti-viral's on your local machines to stop >infected apps from infecting you. If some joker puts an infected app >in his Public Folder you wind up with the same end-result. Your >problem lies elsewhere. > >Oscar is too useful for words; I cannot imagine working without it. > >Stephan Somogyi Contentedness is for sheep Ah but the difference is that with Public Folder, if someone else finds that a file is infected, you just don't get it. But if someone is very excited about a piece of software and thinks *everybody* should *really* have it... Anyway it is your choice as to use it or not, but I would still like to have the choice to pull it onto my system (PF) rather than be at the mercy of someone else (O). Mike. -- Mike Temkin mst@csun.edu Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science Voice phone: (818) 885-3919