a couple of messages re viruses that may be of comfort to some bn users.
25 oct. 2001 by Maurice Sloan. in answering your e-mail. You are safe as regards virus on the BrailleNote as the day-to-day virus that wreck havoc in the PC industry are not supported by the processor structure used in WinCE based machines. Greetings. The only thing with the notion of an antivirus program for the BrailleNote is that, at this point, no virus is written that will RUN on these units. If a virus is written that requires VisualBasic Scripting (VBScript), or JavaScriptstJScript, this won't run (regardless of whether the attachment is opened or not, as the BrailleNote has neither of these scripting languages. Any virus that runs as either an ActiveX control or an executable program for the PC will also not affect the BrailleNote, as there's a world of difference between the MIPS instruction set and the Intel instruction set. The only viruses we might be susceptible to are those that would either be written to target these specific machines, or perhaps maybe possibly those for some models of handheld PC that also use the NEC processor that is in this device. Ciao, Chris hth.
