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From: Walter Harley
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:12

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"Keith R. Williams" <krw@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> [...] as long as the world runs on M$
> trash, we're going to have these problems.

We'll have these problems for longer than that.  Indeed, we'll have these
problems for as long as email does more than convey plain text and the
Internet supports sending of nonsecure messages.  May I remind folks that
MSFT didn't invent the bug, and that the first worms were not on Windows?
Virus writers target whatever platform is dominant and powerful enough to
propagate the virus.  *All* nontrivial platforms have bugs that can be
exploited given enough interest.

If you want to not catch viruses, you have two choices: adopt a non-dominant
platform (and accept that many programs will not be available to you) or
adopt the dominant program, keep it aggressively up to date, and take
precautions.  If you want to not receive virus-related mail, you have two
choices: don't let anyone know your email (and accept that many people won't
be able to reach you easily) or install effective filtering mechanisms,
ideally upstream from your inbox.

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From: "Walter Harley" <walterh@cafewalterNOSPAM.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,austin.internet
Subject: Re: Worm and Virus attack
Date: 20 Sep 2003 06:12:50 GMT
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