From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Tolpin Message-Id: <200403111910.i2BJAT8Y026874@adat.davidashen.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] joys of java In-Reply-To: <1c05f9421f658c2ece4dac3e7b4d49f3@juice.thebigchoice.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:10:29 +0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2b04e1be-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > From 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Thu Mar 11 22:39:43 2004 > From: matt@proweb.co.uk > To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Subject: [9fans] joys of java > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:41:51 0000 > > I'm really sorry for the noise but I felt I had to share this > > We've got Java viruses now - http://java.com/en/download/help/cache_virus.jsp > > Microsoft's buggy VM In fact, the viri are not related to Java. If a virus is attached to ld.com from plan9, it's not a plan9 virus. Bashing java is a nice way to amuse oneself, but there are more serious reasons to criticize it than faults of six years old (at least) Microsoft JVM. David