To: Chad Fairbanks
Maybe it's not the Operating System that is the problem? It must be a mere coincidence that the only computers that ever get infected are running Windows. And thanks to the SoBig virus, millions of those miserable machines will be used as open relays for spam.
as for the three Mac Users out there, well, they ain't gotta worry ;0)
Mac OS X will be running on 10 million computers this year - virus-free.
20 posted on
08/20/2003 9:25:01 PM PDT by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Coincidence? Not really - just more bang for the buck...
Now, Windows, however exploitable, doesn't hold a gun to the heads of people and say "Write something that will exploit this weakness and cause problems for everyone" do they?
22 posted on
08/20/2003 9:31:54 PM PDT by
Chad Fairbanks
(They can have my machete when they pry it from your cold dead skull...)
To: HAL9000
Mac OS X will be running on 10 million computers this year - virus-free.I have to call Bulls**t on that statement - not the numbers, but the 'virus-free' part. There are plenty of Mac Virus' out there - but no one hears much about 'em... and that has to do with numbers - only a certain percentage fo Windows Systems are ever infected. Out of 10 million Mac Users, only a certain percentage would be infected, and that number woul dbe barely a blip on the radar screen. If Macs had the install base that Windows has, we'd hear about them prominently too...
25 posted on
08/20/2003 9:39:12 PM PDT by
Chad Fairbanks
(They can have my machete when they pry it from your cold dead skull...)
To: HAL9000
I understand that Mac OS X is more susceptible to virus than OS 9 and <.
50 posted on
08/21/2003 5:40:58 AM PDT by
Tribune7
(Judge Moore for the Supreme Court)
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