> > How would a virus come into a XP-machine inside a cab? A cab dont need internet, so > > it should be safe and fine. > > > > In terms of original games, I'm told a lot of the Korean arcades ran unpatched XP > machines connected to the internet for highscore sharing etc. needless to say, they > didn't survive remote exploit attacks and ended up as zombie machines, probably lost > forever. > > I believe some of the MAME frontends support similar share scoring features based > around hiscore.dat.
Well, we can of course draw any apocalyptical scenario and before i believe that this will happen, i rather believe that a real virus will kill the whole world. Seriously who needs hi-score sharing via internet in a cab? it doesnt prove anything, i still could use cheats to get a hi-score. stupid people dont play, they spin that hypershit-wheel in their cabs, like some hypnosis-therapy.