>The latest virus count from Norton includes 21,076 know viruses for the
>the DOS/WIN platform. This includes a rather extensive list of
>Word-Macro viruses that only occur with the MS office product line
>(Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access). The list of know viruses has been
>expanding by roughly 200 per month for the past couple of years.
>
>After remaining steady for a number of years, the virus count for the
>Macintosh has finally broken the 50 count. Thanks in part to porting MS
>Office to Mac and some of the Word-Macro virus do impact the Mac.
>
>I don't recall the number of viruses (including trojan and worm) for the
>Unix platform; however, I seem to recall a number less than 10.
>--
>
>John Stewart
>SUPSHIP San Diego
>Information Systems Security Mgr
>--------------------------------
Given that UNX is much older than DOS/WIN, this is revealing. Why so many
for DOS machines? I think in part the reason may be that hackers and geeks,
in general, dislike MS, often intensely. They have no such feelings for
Macs and certainly not for UNX. So they write viruses to attack DOS systems.
Make sense?
Barry
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Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
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