Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:26:00 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spam filtering (was Re: Capclave)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Ted White wrote:
> Mike B. wrote:

>> Mac and Linux viruses aren't unknown...but they are far less common
>> than on Windows, which, if it was a public facility would have been
>> closed by the department of health long ago.

> And if either Mac's OS or Linux was the dominant OS around the world,
> *that's* where the viruses would be.  It has nothing to do the the OS's
> intrinsic merits (or lack thereof) and everything to do with which OS is
> most widely used.

Not completely.  While it's possible to trick a user into running a
program on any system, Mac and Linux/Unix are far better at limiting the
damage it can do.

Also, Microsoft has made an incredible series of bad design decisions
that show that they simply don't understand the basic concepts of
computer security.

--
Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"This is an Open Source virus.  Please send a copy to everybody in
your address book and then delete a bunch of important files."