Re: Re: OT Virus warning (no hoax believe me)

[Cameron Hood]

     A bit of both. OSX has superb onboard encription which is about to 
get even better, and Macs are notoriously difficult to write viruses 
for, anyway, EXCEPT for the Microsoft software which we can now, 
thankfully, avoid. There are a few Mac viruses out there set to go 
against Outlook Express and Internet Exploder, but they are rare, and 
now with the latest version of OSX, we have a dedicated mail and 
browser program integrated into the operating system, so we need no 
longer rely on the evil empire. And a new release of OSX is slated for 
the fall, with built in faxing.

    Macs are fabulous, and as a former Windoze user who has switched, I 
personally will never go back. Photoshop, with Mac's Coloursync 
controlling the colour consistency from scanner to monitor to printer, 
running in a Native OSX environment with symmetrical dual-processing 
and a gig and a half of RAM - YAHOO! BTW, the new mac G5's will take up 
to 8 gigs of ram, have dual 2 GHZ processors, each with 1 gig frontside 
busses. Smokin'!

    Do yourself a favour - get one - they are not just better for 
graphics, or video, or music, they are just better machines for 
everything, they really are.

    Cameron

On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 11:51  AM, 
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:38:06 -0400
From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: OT Virus warning (no hoax believe me)
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I have a question:

Is the security for Macs better than Windows or does no one really
bother to write viruses that attack them?
Steven Desjardins
Department of Chemistry
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8873
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