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Dec 12, 2001, 12:13am

Please disable create url in the world features.
My virus scanner picked up a virus as I was wondering around in AW world.
I didn't have anything open but AW.
I dont know where it might have came from and I don't remember the cords
where I was.
And yes it can be done if that option is on all they did was create url
www.whatever.com/virus.exe
The virus name was W32/Magistr.b at MM

Dec 12, 2001, 12:28am

That's true.. that could be done.. but create url isn't enabled in AW..
bump or activate url might do that but usually it asks you if you want to
run a file from that location.. just select no.

--Bowen--

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Dec 12, 2001, 12:50am

hmm well they could make the .exe a non suported file type or something.
and maby have some options in the browser, user options.
like the cell gride. sept this would make all bump actions get hilighted in
red or some other color, there is no way to detect a bump untill after you
hit it. activate is detectable by your mouse pointer but not bump or
create.


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Dec 12, 2001, 12:54am

That would be very nice. LoL I hate getting thrown around by someone's bump
actions. But not all EXE's are viruses.. so that would be a somewhat bad
thing, I personally hate virus creators.. they could really be more useful
then to be a vandal. :)

--Bowen--

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Dec 12, 2001, 1:23am

Yea, but what reason would anyone need to directly link an .exe in here?
They can just link to the web site that has the .exe



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Dec 12, 2001, 1:28am

LoL that's true too.. who knows what reasons people do things for.

--Bowen--

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Dec 17, 2001, 6:47pm

Have AW scan the exe for a virius. If it isnt a virius let the user download
it.
<grins thinking of the resoloution changer he made in vb and sent to a
friend>

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Dec 17, 2001, 9:11pm

Cool, turning AW into a virus scanner would be a welcome addition to my disk defragmenter and paritioner ideas !

Fox Mc Cloud

"johnf" <john at dynamite-software.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c1e59e6 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Have AW scan the exe for a virius. If it isnt a virius let the user download
> it.
> <grins thinking of the resoloution changer he made in vb and sent to a
> friend>

Dec 17, 2001, 10:26pm

My virus scanner scans all files that come into my computer.
But would be cool though.

As for the defrag thats not a good idea, as it will only run if nothing is
running with it, every time the drive changed it would restart. And it would
really lag the heck out of you to.
Now if you mean defrag the AW cache only that would be cool :-), just have
to find a way to pause all downloads wile its running.



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