On 8 Feb 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: > In this past year's tour of my friends and family, I've taken to removing > their antivirus software at the same time I remove their spyware, and I've > taken to installing Mozilla (with its IMAP client) as a way to keep the > machine from having any dependency on anti-virus software.
A friend of mine did that for his mom's law office about 4-5 years ago. Instead of MS Word + Outlook, they used Word Perfect and Eudora. They've never had a macro virus or email virus outbreak, and so far have managed to stay fairly virus free. I don't think not having MS Word or Outlook have slowed them down in the least.