Re: Microsoft crap considered disingenuous

2000-06-23 Thread petro
At 02:26 PM 6/22/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: I could be smug and say that I didn't get it because I use Eudora Pro on a _Macintosh_, not that "Microsoft crap." However, "Microsoft crap" is the main target for virus distributors because it is so ubiquitous, and because this is what most Third World

Re: Microsoft crap considered disingenuous

2000-06-23 Thread petro
Mr May: So does the Mac, at least for non-server versions. So does OS/2, I'm sure. From what I remember, there is no difference between the server versions of MacOS (with the exception of MacOS X server, which isn't really MacOS) as far as security at the console is concerned. The

Re: Microsoft crap considered disingenuous

2000-06-23 Thread David Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Not to say that Linux doesn't have some advantages, obviously. The main advantage the Linux has in this regard is that the "average user" cannot modify system binaries. This makes worms of this sort more difficult to perpetuate. Unfortunatly, there are

Re: Microsoft crap considered disingenuous

2000-06-22 Thread Alan Olsen
At 07:11 PM 6/22/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Not to say that Linux doesn't have some advantages, obviously. The main advantage the Linux has in this regard is that the "average user" cannot modify system binaries. This makes worms of this sort more difficult to perpetuate.