--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard Gaskin writes: > > > Alex Rice wrote: > > > >> Personally I would rather pay an extra $75 than > to move over to Windows > >> for my main development platform. > > > > If you move your email to Windows as well you'll > pay far more than $75 > > dealing with viruses. ;) > > > > -- > > Richard Gaskin > > Fourth World Media Corporation > > Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database > on any site > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ============= > Wow Richard, that is s definitive sounding almost > "urban legend"-like > statement! However, as a Windows user for all but > the first year it came > out, I have not spent dollar one in either avoiding > viruses or by problems > caused by viruses on any of my Windows systems! > > miscdas >
Well I for one am very happy that my Norton AntiVirus software captures the five infected emails I get in my home mailbox per week -- too bad it couldn't save me from the real world-virus that had unmentionable effects on my metabolism. There are some very nasty viruses out there, as quite a few of our customers can say who didn't get NAV and lost quite a few things on their hard drives or found sensitive files had been sent to a random person in their address book. Not to mention the spyware that we found on their hard drives. This morning one of my colleagues showed me an HTML-formatted email with a VBScript in it that would eject all your removable media. Even if that's just a prank, it goes to show that many things can be easily accomplished by malevolent minds. And when I compare the things I have to face on my Outlook-equipped Win2K machine at work, to the safety of my MacOSX iBook, I can only support Richard's claim. Jan Schenkel. ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
