"Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob George wrote:
> >
> > > And how much work will they be getting done while
> > > their computers are disabled by a virus, ILOVEYOU
> > > or otherwise?
> >
> > About as many as the number of DOS users that could
> > work on their machines after Ripper worked its magic
> > a few years ago.
>
> How do you figure that, Bob?
Ah, let me state that a bit more better: The number of Windows users able to
get work done AFTER INFECTION would be the same as DOS users able to get
work done AFTER INFECTION -- namely zero. Call it "survival rate" if that
helps. The size of the population isn't as important as the mortality rate
of those exposed. Ebola hasn't killed as many people as the flu. I still
don't want to mess with it.
> Since the early 90's, I have received lots of email
> on my DOS machine and I've never had a virus, Ripper
> or otherwise. In fact, I've personally known only one
> person who ever got a DOS virus -- and he was infected
> by some pirated software (go figure).
I never caught AIDS. I only know one person who has, and he's...
I personally have yet to get a virus on any system I own, unless you count a
few deliberate infections in a training session. I collected my little
menagerie of virus-infected diskettes while working with school districts
throughout the USA. Each had strain had disrupted the education of hundreds,
if not thousands of kids in the K-12 group by the time I found them.
Ah, but then those non-technically inclined teachers "deserved" it, right?
> ILOVEYOU and the other "MicroSoft-LookOut!" worms
> hurt far more people than the DOS viruses ever did.
And the point is? DOS is less likely to be exposed, perhaps. Surely you're
not implying that a writer of a DOS virus is somehow more benign than one
that writes Windows-specific variants?
My point is that EITHER OS can be infected and any infection has the
potential to be equally lethal.
Using OS[xyz] is no guaranteed protection. Education is.
- Bob
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