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Article #12377Re: PowerMac 7300/180 hardware question.
From: pedro
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:51
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:51
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Morten Dreier wrote: >pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> wrote: > > > >>Morten Dreier wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hey - this is a Mac. The chance of someone giving you a virus or hacking >>>your machine is very, very low. I've had Macs connected to the internet >>>since 1995, and I have not seen _any_ attempts of hacking or virus >>>infection from the internet. >>>I've had one virus, in 1992, but my nice antivirus-program, GateKeeper, >>>just removed it. >>> >>> >>Why is this? Is it due to the way Mac's function, or simply that hackers >>don't bother with them? >> >> > >The design of the operating system as a whole does make it very >difficult to make viruses. Sure - one of the first viruses was made for >a Unix system, but since then Windows has been proved as an exellent >breeding-ground for viruses - because of the design of the Windows >operating system. > > > Windoze is crap, and always has been. It only works by getting bigger and bigger, and it's only achieved it's market dominance by the aggressive and ruthless marketing strategies of Bill Gates. M$ was built on a lie to begin with. He never had a functional DOS operating system when he was contracted by IBM, only a mock up of it, but he led them to believe he had. At least that's the story as I know it. -- rgds, Pete ----- http://pedro.spyw.com The time here is- http://tinyurl.com/6sfgd 'Unable to locate Coffee.. Operator Halted!'
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