Dear Mr. Flint and group:
I am told by knowledgeable UNIX people (another partitioning of the
world) that the structure of UNIX is such that attacks can not be
successful. I am told that there are only three ports into/outof UNIX
modules and it is simple to guard them.
The Bill ware OSs allow all sorts of back doors and side doors and
over-the-transom ports.
What I do not understand is why someone has not funded a set of
bright Indian programmers to produce an OS that can execute Window
programs without committing the errors made by Bill's people. There is
a Unix based program that is able to execute some, well behaved Windows
programs.
I threaten my students with eternal haunting if they ever write a
control program in Bill style. 73 Mac N8TT

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J. Mc Laughlin - Michigan USA
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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.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE