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Oops, link broken. Here is the correct link:

I really like this quote:

To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it.

It is inclusive of OS-X. By the way, the Macintosh virii referred to are Macintosh Classic viruses, affecting OS-9.2.2 and below, not OS-X. OS-X would be susceptible to the Unix virii.

36 posted on 02/10/2004 10:54:38 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)

It's really amazing what leaving out a single quotation mark in HTML can do.

The ACTUAL portion of the post above including the link to the article as originally written (except for a omitted quotation mark):

Let's see what a computer security expert has to say about Linux, OSX, and Microsoft Windows, shall we?

Linux vs. Windows Viruses
by Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus,
The Register (UK).
June 10, 2003.

That's the link to the entire article. Here are some quotations from the article:

"To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman."

"According to Dr. Nic Peeling and Dr Julian Satchell's Analysis of the Impact of Open Source Software . . .

37 posted on 02/10/2004 11:05:27 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)

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