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In article <1hv07gINN3mn@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <eronald.725752239@ruble> eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald) writes:

>Unfortunately the two major microcomputer operating systems are still in
>the early 60's level of technology.  This is a marketing problem, not
>a technological one.  If people refused to use junk like MS-DOS and Mac OS,
>viruses would be almost nonexistant.

I agree in principle that the Mac OS & MS-Dos by their lack of
protection, make viruses easy to spread.  However, there are less than
20 viruses for the mac, all of which can be stopped by a freely
available utility.  While I'm not as familiar with the PC world, there
seem to be at least 50 major strains of viruses, and I don't know of
any single program which can stop all of them.

Does anyone care to comment on why there are so many more MS-Dos
viruses out there, and there doesn't seem to be any universally
accepted tool (like Disinfectant) to stop viruses.  Or is this a false
impression because I use a mac and have taken the time to find out
about the tools available?




Adam Shostack 					adam@das.harvard.edu

What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig.  Or not to have a .sig
at all.  How true that is.