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Wednesday 23 June 2010
 Number  1973
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  No anti-virus software? No internet connection : Dennis Nolan <dennis at jeg-og dot com>
2  Re:  IPv6, was: No anti-virus software? No internet connection : Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>
3  Re:  IPv6, was: No anti-virus software? No internet connection : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley dot id dot au>

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Date:  Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:19:39 +1000
From:  Dennis Nolan <dennis at jeg-og dot com>
Subject:  Re:  No anti-virus software? No internet connection

How about distributing their own computer virus whose only function is 
to report the fact that it is running on an unprotected machine.

Then watch the fun when they are inundated with false reports.

Someone pisses you off, send their address as being an unprotected computer.

Delicious.

Dennis.



Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Peter Moylan">
>   
>> Ian Manners wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> <http://www.news dot com dot au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-c
>>> onne ction/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> How do they propose to figure out whether you're using anti-virus
>> software?
>>     
>
> register on electoral roll ?
>
>
>   
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Date:  Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:55:46 +1000
From:  Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>
Subject:  Re:  IPv6, was: No anti-virus software? No internet connection

Ian Manners wrote:
>
> IPv6 is here now, and you can use IPv6 if you are with internode,
> most other ISP's are lagging badly though :-(
>
But will OS/2 ever get IPv6 support? It seems unlikely, so the day might
come when our ISPs are locking us out by giving us addresses we can't use.

-- 
Peter Moylan                          peter at pmoylan dot org
                                      http://www.pmoylan dot org

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Date:  Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:34:30 +0845
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley dot id dot au>
Subject:  Re:  IPv6, was: No anti-virus software? No internet connection

Hi Peter,

Peter Moylan wrote:
> Ian Manners wrote:
>> IPv6 is here now, and you can use IPv6 if you are with internode,
>> most other ISP's are lagging badly though :-(
>>
> But will OS/2 ever get IPv6 support? It seems unlikely, so the day might
> come when our ISPs are locking us out by giving us addresses we can't use.

This is going to be some time away - given the quantity of ADSL 
modem/routers out there that only support IPv4. Let alone devices like 
PS3's etc that are IPv4.

Even once IPv6 becomes more widespread, I suspect that the routers that 
are available for home use will be dual stack and support IPv4 devices 
on LAN's using NAT.

Cheers,

Paul

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