Re: Question about the number of Apple users vs Mac users

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Roy Miller wrote:

>william strutts wrote:
>>
>> > Everyone knows that it's MS products that these bugs are designed to
>> > attack -why not call them what they really are -Windows problems. It's
>not
>> > Linux, or OS400, or any of the other network OS' that are being exploited
>> by
>> > these worthless virus writing scum.
>> >
>> The thing to remember here is that MS has 90% of the OS market
>> and hence most worms/virii are designed to attack it since it is the
>> dominant OS of the day.
>
>Actually, the above quote is more correct than your statement. Most of the
>destructive code floating around is not aimed at M$ OS, but rather at their
>applications. If you don't have M$ Office, M$ IE, and M$ Outlook/Express,
>then
>you are safe from most of the diseased code being emailed about.
>
>So, if you have to work with Windoze, as I do, use a different office suite,
>and a different internet suite, and you are safe from more than 90% of the
>computer parasites.

Actually, Roy, if you simply disable auto-running scripts, set Windows
to always display file type suffixes (so you'll _see_ the ".vbs", for
example, before clicking on it), and _never_ open a suspicious file,
then you will find that you have little to worry about.

-michael

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