Re: Cancer research

Re: Cancer research

Heather Davidson

3/18/2002

I ran this idea by my husband who works with computers - here is his reply -
i'll be looking for some other way to feel good about life !

H. Davidson CO

Bad idea - Your compter is definetly more vulnerable. If your on the
internet a hacker has to log onto the box that host the site get through
their security and find your IP Adress - If a site is hosted by a hacker
your giving them you IP Adress right off. However if the site is legit its a
good idea - it depends I quess if you trust the source who told you about
this.






Thanks........................TJ.



>From: <Email Address Redacted>
>Reply-To: <Email Address Redacted>
>To: <Email Address Redacted>
>Subject: [OANDP-L] Cancer research
>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:55:53 EST
>
>Hello colleagues and guests,
>
>Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? Here is a link that
>should
>leave each of us feeling good about ourselves every time we return to our
>sceen saved computers. <URL Redacted>.
>My personal and company computers paticipate in this project whenever they
>are idle. Cancer is one project area, but there are others. All are
>important.
>
>In short, whenever your computer is idle and on-line, as is the case with
>DSL, cable connects, etc., it goes to work for humanity by linking in
>series
>with thousands of computers all over the world as a computational molecular
>chemistry problem solver. Each on-line computer adds computational power
>to
>the molecular computation at hand. Visit the site mentioned above and see
>for yourselves what this is all about.
>
>I don't know for sure, but my guess is that your computer is not any more
>vulnerable to hackers, viruses, etc, than it would be anyway. I would be
>interested to hear what the computer gurus think about this. I would also
>be
>interested to learn of any other negative impact this might have for
>participants.
>
>Good day to each and every one.
>
>Wil Haines, CPO
>
>