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Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Clive on May 01, 2006, 09:28
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Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: chorleydave on May 01, 2006, 10:50
Clive, how on earth do you find these things out?  I read almost every post on here, yet I don't remember mac claiming he has an imunity to viruses.   :o
Title: Mac's immune
Post by: mistybear on May 01, 2006, 10:56
Well he's immune to everything else. :wink:  :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Simon on May 01, 2006, 10:58
Don't start him off again!!  :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: mistybear on May 01, 2006, 11:02
Come on Simon where's your sense of adventure. :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 01, 2006, 15:58
Well, my nose is running. Now if someone could invent a nose tap, I'd be most thankful.

:thanks:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: mistybear on May 01, 2006, 16:00
Are you sure your ears weren't burning as well Mac. :wink:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 01, 2006, 16:01
I wear ear muffs with built in extinguishers.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: mistybear on May 01, 2006, 16:02
Just as well.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 01, 2006, 22:52
Quote from: "Mac"
Quote from: "Simon"
Don't start him off again!!  :laugh:


Thank you Simon.

 :roll:


My 'other' Mac got eaten by moths.

Very hol(e)y...
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Simon on May 01, 2006, 22:59
You should have used mothballs.  ;)
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 01, 2006, 23:01
I couldn't find any uncastrated moths.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: mistybear on May 02, 2006, 02:44
If I'm holding a moth ball in one hand, and a moth ball in the other hand.

What do I have in front of me.



A bloody big moth. :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Clive on May 02, 2006, 07:53
That would make Simon very nervous.   :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Simon on May 02, 2006, 07:55
Yes, I'm not a big fan of large flying insects.  :scoot:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Clive on May 02, 2006, 08:02
Only flying ones?   :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Simon on May 02, 2006, 08:06
Well, I have been known to freak at our arachnid friends also.  :blush2:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 02, 2006, 09:31
Sounds like an Elephant moth, Misty.

You're very brave.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 02, 2006, 09:33
Quote from: "Simon"
Well, I have been known to freak at our arachnid friends also.  :blush2:


Invest in a 12 Gauge. You'll be fine.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Clive on May 02, 2006, 09:42
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Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: mistybear on May 02, 2006, 09:48
That's very cruel Clive. :shock:

I have to show Michael. :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: mistybear on May 02, 2006, 09:49
Quote from: "Mac"
Sounds like an Elephant moth, Misty.

You're very brave.


Only in my own mind. :wink:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 02, 2006, 09:52
Make that a 10 Gauge.

Seriously, a 12 gauge is good for snakes and other garden pests.

Use a gas-operated automatic so's you don't get too much recoil.

I use an old Remington 1100 which cost me all of $10 as it 'didn't work'.

I just put in the missing parts and it was good as new.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Sandra on May 02, 2006, 13:06
They allow Mac to have a gun  :roll:

I didnt think he was allowed even sharply pointed things where he lives :shock:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: mistybear on May 02, 2006, 13:22
Thats why he could only buy one that didn't work. :laugh:
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 02, 2006, 16:10
The man who sold it didn't know which two parts were missing. The two gas seal-rings.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 02, 2006, 16:43
That model is now US$775.99 so I got a pretty good deal, don't you think?

The two parts which were needed are just US$14.40 plus a rubber o-ring seal which you can find most anywhere.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Clive on May 02, 2006, 16:59
Very resourceful Mac.   :laugh:   But why do you need a gun?  Do you hunt or is it for protection?
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 03, 2006, 11:55
Both Clive. Mostly for shooting in the field and for clay pigeon shooting in competition.

Another family member is a licensed firearms carrier which means that he is allowed to carry a concealed weapon, and he also has a 12 gauge riot gun with which to protect his business, as he is a jeweller.

I have had the police call on ocassion to see if I would lend them a weapon in an emergency, and a friend of mine in England was called upon, by the Police, to shoot a mad axe murderer many years ago as he was holding a woman hostage and threatening to kill her.

He used a rifle which he normally used for deer and shot the man through the rear window of the car he was using.

Now about the Apple Mac virii. Any progress on trapping the propagators of these things, or are we reduced to putting mothballs in our laptops?

I believe that they're small enough...
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 04, 2006, 15:50
Quote from: "Clive"
Very resourceful Mac.   :laugh:   But why do you need a gun?  Do you hunt or is it for protection?


All the policemen carry guns, btw.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Simon on May 04, 2006, 20:36
Quote from: "Mac"
All the policemen carry guns, btw.

So why did one want to borrow a gun from you?
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 04, 2006, 20:42
That was when I was resident in the UK Simon, a country united by land mass but, unhappily, divided by religion(s).

I meant to say that over here, in Europe, all the policemen carry guns.

Not so in the UK I believe.

The 'British Nationality Act' was probably the final straw which broke the camel's back, if it hasn't totally bankrupted the exchequer.

Never mind, there is always 'Great British Farce' to cheer us all up and the odd pantomime or two.

Have you ever seen a black and white film made by the BBC entitled 'The War Game', btw.

Maybe it should be allowed to be put on general release. It shows what the effect of a nuclear winter would be like.

A 'Winter of Discontent' indeed.

Puritanism anyone?
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Simon on May 04, 2006, 20:43
Correct.  But you are in Belgium, yes?
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 05, 2006, 08:28
Yes indeed. The land of the 'choco boys', where you have to keep your back to the wall, or carry a gun.

Seems that the church encourages perversion, especially lesbianism.

And lead us not into Military service and deliver us from moral responsibility seems to be their 'credo'...

Quite disgusting.

Especially if you research the incidences of incest and bestiality going on in this 'private sector industry'.

Pornography would appear to be a flourising 'industry' alongside prostitution, and every other imaginable crime.

Such is the true nature of 'the broad church' and its 'broad tastes'.

They like to 'keep it in the family' apparently and have spent centuries covering up just to keep the Pope in office.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 05, 2006, 08:38
Just how many rent boys live in your area? There are quite a few in Manchester for example. It appears to be an inner city problem brought about by a continuous regime of poverty, wafers and water and pious platitudes which have a tendency to fall rather ... flat.

A military society screens this sort of immoral and illicit activity - out - of the system.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Clive on May 05, 2006, 09:10
Mac, I think you have made your point over and over again.  Nobody seems to be disagreeing with you so perhaps you should consider that you may be preaching to the converted.  In other words, the subject has been exhausted and we must ask you to stop posting about pornography, prostitution, homosexuality, religious matters and racism.  You are an expert with computers and we would appreciate your help in solving members problems.
Title: Macs no longer immune to viruses, experts say
Post by: Mac on May 05, 2006, 09:29
I agree Clive, the subject is well exhausted.

Let us hope that the relevant steps are now taken to remedy all of these ills that plague us all.

Computers don't really interest me that much as they are only being used in an attempt to outwit the authorities in most cases.

It is more the moral climate, or lack of it, which I find discouraging.

I'll leave it there.