command for downloading a package to save

[Martin Laberge]

On Saturday 13 June 2009 17:51:22 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Saturday 13 Jun 2009 22:05:57 Steven Vollom wrote:
> > A virus has blocked me from sending emails, from communicating with my ISP, 
> > and now from downloading an application that may fix the problem.  How can I 
> > download Klamov to a file, so I can copy it on a thumb drive and install it on 
> > my infected computer?  Thanks!
> > 
> > Steven
> > 
> > 
> Steven,
> 
> You automatically assume that a Virus is the cause of every computer problem you have. Since you're using Linux this is very, very, unlikely. Indeed the symptoms you're describing are not the sort of thing I'd expect a virus to cause. A more likely explanation is that your ISP is having temporary problems. You may just need to wait a while and see if things start working again. Also, try to think of anything you might have changed - is the router switched on for instance, or have you changed any settings? Ask yourself logical questions, don't automatically blame a Virus, I very much doubt that's anything to do with your problems.
> 
> Mark
> 

To catch a Windows virus, and infect a Linux computer,
is not unlikely, it is Impossible.

Just find something else to blame, your Linux computer
DID NOT have been infected by a windows virus.

Even if you received the virus in your mail

Even if you just did not resist to click on it and try to run it.

If you have Wine installed, then the windows virus opened in wine,
would infect only your wine environment, not your linux environment.


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