Re: [COMPMED] Yet Another Computer Virus
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From: | Jane Chambers <jane.chambers@Agouron.COM> |
To: | Tom Fielder <tjf@uci.edu>, HistoNet Server <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu> |
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If 90% of the office PC's use Windows, then it would be expected that most of
the viruses are aimed at Windows-type applications. If they targeted Macs, how
many people would be effected? And isn't that the goal of the people writing
the virus programs?
Jane
Tom Fielder wrote:
> The take-home message is, get a Mac! Or Linux or Unix...
>
> Granted 90% of office PC's run Windows (or at least that's the
> widely-quoted figure), but it's still hard for me to understand why,
> in every discussion or media story about these viruses, the fact that
> Windows is far and away the most virus-vulnerable OS in existence is
> not more prominently reported. Nor can I understand why Apple hasn't
> designed an entire advertising campaign around this fact.
>
> OK, I'll get off my soapbox now, lest I take up too much bandwidth
> for off-topic rants.
>
> Tom
>
> > > use something other than Microsoft software for email.
> >
> >I don't want to sound like a salesperson for Microsoft, but this is a
> >fallocy that I hear repeated often. The infection of a computer with macro
> >viruses has little to do with Outlook or Outlook Express, but rather the
> >Windows Scripting Host installed in the Windows Operating System.
>
> (snipped)
>
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