[Am-info] E-mail virus picks up speed

[Mitch Stone]

Sure, it's good to see viruses attributed where they belong, but the 
politics of this sort of thing is pretty fascinating. I've never got 
much milage out of suggesting that using an OS other than Windows is a 
useful way protecting one's self against virus attacks. Invariably, the 
response I get is, "If [...] OS was more popular, it would be attacked 
just as often as Windows."

This has always struck me as a very theoretical response to an entirely 
practical problem, but a great many people seem determined to stick 
with it.

On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 06:56 PM, Roy Bixler wrote:

> They actually explicitly mention that it's a Windows virus.  They
> didn't mention that in past articles, so it's nice to see it now.  I
> hope they make it a regular pattern to mention the platform the virus
> needs in order to spread.
>
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   Mitch Stone
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   The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are
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