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Mere denial.
It infected applicaitons, and would then spread when the infected apps were run. This is a clbuttical "virus" in the old sense.
Of course these days the press calls everything you don't want on your computer a "virus", but that's a little overbroad, I'm sure you'll agree.
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You can resell botnets to spammers and such.
Daniel Johnson Nope. Just pointing out your cluelessness about viruses. Only after it asked the user for the admin pbuttword. That puts it in the...
Windows security *design* was copied from the best, and is better than Unix. But design appears to make little difference.
MS did not change the *design* of Windows when they delayed Vista to improve the security of Windows Server, and then Windows XP. They improved the implementation.
And it has *already* taken them years. :D
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I have explained. I will repeat, since it is quite simple:
Windows is *vastly* more popular than any other OS. You'd expect something like a 98-2 ratio based on marketshare alone.
And Windows serves the least knowledgable computer users, the ones who have not the fairest idea how anything works and are, therefore, highly vulnerable.
Daniel Johnson That is when you don't provide the pbuttword. The virus can no longer propagate and hence doesn't meet the criteria of easily spreading to other computers as a virus...
Part of MS's dominance is simply that they *try* to serve this market. Apple does not; they do strive for high-quality UI, but their target are sophisticated, high end users with great wads of cash, not the people who dislike or fear computers.
I've harped on this before: MS winds because they tackle the hard problems that other vendors avoid. Building an OS for users who don't understand computers at *all* is quite difficult, and MS still hasn't managed to make one that is really bulletproof enough. But they are the only ones in the game: the only ones seriously trying to do it. Therefore, only Microsoft can win.
No. It asked for the pbuttword when it hit an application that it could not overwrite without it; but it would infect such apps as it could without...
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I have done so. Must I repeat myself?
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You haven't forgiven the viruses from back then, have you?
A seamstress?
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By "others" I suppose you mean "GreyCloud".
But the behavior of 'fork()' is well known.
You may find Google searches on the terms "OOM person" or "Out of Memory person" illuminating. That's what the relevant software is called on Linux.
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No. The original Unix had no problem here; fork() returned an error if there was not enough memory to copy the current process.
It was only with the introuduction of MMUs that this defect became possible.
Certianly. Unix is rather older than that!
But VAX-VMS did not use fork().
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