[TalonDJ]

Hmm I will have to remember how to fix that one just in case. I use to have anti-virus software on my machine but it hosed the computer up so bad I wished I had a virus instead. So now I don't bother. At least my router protects me from some stuff. I only worry about my XP box though since no one seems to write viri for OSX.

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to the new hole Talon!

[Fedora]

I've never tried OSX. How is it?

[Ramius]

I only worry about my XP box though since no one seems to write viri for OSX.

I meant to get back to you about this...

Some day soon... Mac users are going to be taken to the cleaners by an internet worm.

Please don't get me wrong... I'm a Mac Head from WAY back. The first computer I bought for myself was one of the old original Macs. I even still have a Powerbook around here somewhere... and I like Macs, and I like PC's and I like linux and I... ok... I don't like VMS very much. Except for that I simply have no personal bias.

but I'm concerned that Mac users, many of whom admittedly don't know spit from shinola about computers, have been given this false sense of security. Someday, somebody is gonna write a worm that exploits some of the many *thousands* of vulnerabilities in BSD Unix... and they're just gonna clean house.

One of the things that's gonna make it really hard to fix is that none of these machines will have any effective firewalls or antivirus capability. It'll spread like wildfire.

That's gonna be an interesting day.