Re: Plain text please ! (Was: Re: [boost] Re: build system?)

From: David Allan Finch (sarum_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-07-27 04:57:37

Valentin Bonnard wrote:

> (It isn't the HTML which contains viruses/worms/bombs, it's
> the Java.* code. Never mind.)

You have seen or heard of a Java virus? A real one! I think
you are mistaking this with a Visual Basic virus. Java runs
in a 'sandbox' which protects you from it getting at you OS
without your specific concent unlike a M$ Visual Basic script
which can scrible all over your M$ OS at it whim.

David Allan Finch
Certified Sun(tm) Solaris(tm) Administrator.

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