Dan wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:28:59 GMT, "Jim Hampton"
wrote:


Hello, Dan

True enough, but the fact is that the problem is the screwball folks that
get their jollies writing the darn things in the first place.

Yes, I.E. is a major problem - mostly because it is popular and your
comparison with cars and trucks makes sense.


The people who get off on seeing their "handiwork" in the news would
certainly switch to Linux or OS X or whatever we all "switch" to. If
the numbers were there, these systems would already have this crap.

So you are stating that Linux has the same number of security flaws as
the triumvirate of IE/Outlook/and whatever Windows OS?

Might want to check that out.


Windows/IE/OE gets the viruses because Windows/IE/OE has the users.
It's that simple.

No it isn't.


Yet, I don't get *any* of this crap on my Windows systems, and I have
several. It's all down to common sense. I don't post here with my
real name and email address (check my headers!), I keep my systems
up-to-date, and I have a good firewall running. I get scanned,
pinged, poked and probed all the time, but nothing gets thru.


You don't get spam or viruses? Not even the scattershot address stuff?
You should be giving computer security seminars! 8^)

- mike KB3EIA -