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RE: Re[2]: Run your Antivirus Program

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Run your Antivirus Program
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:45:36 -0500
References: <34D8E2AB2B79784F96F3A75DDEAE9C1902B509@EXCHANGE.workgroup.n et>
This would hold more water if MS software in general was less leaky!  :)

At 9:19 AM -0500 11/28/01, Adrian Barnes wrote:
>The alternate to this theory is that writers of a virus or trojan will
>target/exploit the most common system.  It happens that Outlook/Windows
>are the most prevalent email & platform now.  In the future, if Larry
>gets his way, it could be Mac, and we'll have Mac virii spreading
>everywhere.  If The Bat from RITLABS was the most common email platform,
>virii would target it for sure.  Remember way back before Microsoft?
>There were still worms and virii.  Give me a cookie.  All systems have
>weaknesses.
>
>Adrian
>http://www.midgetweb.com


_____________________________________________________________
Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emory Eye Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
Senior Editor, Molecular Vision, http://www.molvis.org/molvis
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