on 9/18/03 9:16 PM, Marta Edie at mledie at insightbb.com wrote: > Here is a link to David Pogue's Circuits, e-mail edition of the New > York Times .It gives insight into the vulnerablity issues concerning > viruses in the different operating systems.i > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/circuits/18POGUE-EMAIL.html > > Marta > Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin A.D. > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. Solid discussion from a writer who knows what he's talking about. At work (the Windows-dominated College of Arts & Sciences at UK), I hear the "nobody bothers writing viruses for Macs because they'd affect so few users" story all the time. (If being common means frantic patching that might or might not screw up your computer, network slowdowns, and overflowing mailboxes, you can have it.) My hunch was always that the Unix base of OS X is just tougher to crack, and/or that a lot of really sloppy code comes out of Redmond. Of course, this doesn't mean that at some point in the future somebody wouldn't be able to infect Macs on newer OS, or that some kind of mysterious multiple-platform virus/worm wouldn't mess up everybody, but for now can Alex rest fairly assured that nothing is going to be irretrievably messed up in _her_ system? Joyce
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
