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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 05:33:31 -0500, "H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H"
wrote: Is life THAT boring? 73 H. Hi OM, Put the word "pound" in one posting and see what happens. ;-) 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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On 23 Sep 2003 18:00:04 -0800, Floyd Davidson
wrote: Mike Coslo wrote: Dee D. Flint wrote: "David or Jo Anne Ryeburn" wrote: "Dee D. Flint" wrote: If you have a suggestion on how to stop them, please let us all in on it. Persuade the universe to cease using unsafe operating system software, browsers, and e-mail programs coming from Redmond, WA ;-). UNIX, including the version now marketed by Apple, is pretty safe. David, ex-W8EZE, whose computers are happily MS-free except for safe 11 year old versions of Word and Excel If everyone switched to UNIX, the solution would be short-lived as the virus writers would then switch to attacking it. Right now, they simply get more "bang for the buck" by attacking Windows and it doesn't give them much of a thrill to also go after UNIX system users or Apple computer users. You have touched on the answer, Dee. David is the one who touched on it. The answer *is* to use an OS designed to be secure. Microsoft products are not, while virtually all of the current unix systems are. Some unixes (the ones with open source code, which does not include Apple) do have higher potential for good security than others. The "bang for the buck" argument is proof of it too. If you want a *bang*, then shutdown the *entire* Internet, not just some percentage of the hosts connected to it. The fact is that from the start the Internet itself ran on unix. That is less true today, but it is still true enough that if one could write a virus to knock out unix, one could just shut the Internet off for days. But, of course, it can't be done (or that is exactly what they would be doing). Unfortunately this is an academic argument as the "rest-of-the-world", is not going to change and wouldn't change if you provided it free...which much already is. The vast majority wouldn't change even if you installed UNIX, or LINUX and set up the applications. Then, most of those who would be willing to use one of those "if you set it up", they would want mail and news readers that do the same as Outlook and Outlook Express. If the OS didn't open them to the world their applications would albeit they would be less likely to trash the OS ... Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) |
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