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Mikey wrote:Dude! Did you find the gateway?

To internet porn? Yes.

Still, if the program replaced a vital piece of code (like Windows.exe), the system would automatically execute it. It sort of has to. They should have redundant systems isolated from each other, though.

The simple fact is that with adequate security, it shouldn't have gotten into the system at all.
Simply program the computer not to open any files without a direct command from a user. So the virus is sitting there....and then what? It can't get in, because the computer won't let it. It can't rewrite the computer's orders because it needs to be inside to do that. It's effectively dead.

And even if it does somehow get in, there's no excuse for it taking over the entire ship. All important systems should be completely seperate from each other, with no computerised link.

Didn't the probe hit the E-D with some kind of beam? It might've literally forced it's way into the system like a brute force attack on a firewall.

But, I agree completely on the other point; once it got in, it should've been detected and isolated.

Perhaps. I don't know enough on computers to say. You'd be better off asking someone like Ian.

They downloaded the Yamato's logs-which contained the virus. The Yamato got it from a probe. I ahve no problem with the virus. It was an alien code designed by a highly advanced alien civilization, ahead of even the Federation.

How advanced it is is irrelevant. While I can maybe make exception for it getting onto the ship in the first place, there's no excuse for it having access to every computer in the ship. That's just a terrible design.

Maybe someone forgot to hit "F12" and boot in safe mode?

Mikey wrote:Maybe someone forgot to hit "F12" and boot in safe mode?

Like I said in my example, I couldn't boot at all once the damn thing got into the BIOS.

Just pull out the damned plug!

Deepcrush wrote:Just pull out the damned plug!

I believe that's what they did..

Then everything is ok.

Yeah, but they had to wait for Data to die (yet again) and ressurect himself in order to think of it.

Thats like coming up the idea of seperating the Saucer Section in TNG:Disaster after Data removes his head.

Doesn't the GCS have three computer cores? A primary and redundant pair in the saucer section and one in the engineering section?

Something like that.

And they were all infected.

Rochey wrote:Something like that.

And they were all infected.

Hmmm...