Actually Windows machines are more vulnerable to virus infections than Macs. David Pogue of the New York Times wrote an article last year detailing why the Mac OS architecture is more virus and worm resistant that of Windows. Scott > From: Jeff Spirer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:34:37 -0800 > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: HI > > At 06:56 AM 1/27/2004, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: > >> I get all those too, but my ISP gets them in the trash before they get to >> me. Get on your ISPs to weed these things out. You shouldn't have to be >> dealing with them at all. > > Some of us have more direct connections that don't involve what ISPs can do. > > >> And get rid of Windoze. It's much too vulnerable for you to be spending >> your precious time on this sort of junk. > > Windows isn't more vulnerable. It may be less vulnerable. It's just that > with 95% of the computers running Windows, any determined virus > writer/propagator has no interest in other operating systems. > > > Jeff Spirer > Photos: http://www.spirer.com > One People: http://www.onepeople.com/ > Surfaces and Marks: http://www.withoutgrass.com >
