Rev killing the Mac platform?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- miscdas at boxfrog.com wrote:
> Richard Gaskin writes: 
> 
> > Alex Rice wrote: 
> > 
> >> Personally I would rather pay an extra $75 than
> to move over to Windows
> >> for my main development platform.
> > 
> > If you move your email to Windows as well you'll
> pay far more than $75
> > dealing with viruses. ;) 
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Richard Gaskin 
> >  Fourth World Media Corporation
> >  Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database
> on any site
> > 
>
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> =============
> Wow Richard, that is s definitive sounding almost
> "urban legend"-like 
> statement! However, as a Windows user for all but
> the first year it came 
> out, I have not spent dollar one in either avoiding
> viruses or by problems 
> caused by viruses on any of my Windows systems! 
> 
> miscdas 
> 

Well I for one am very happy that my Norton AntiVirus
software captures the five infected emails I get in my
home mailbox per week -- too bad it couldn't save me
from the real world-virus that had unmentionable
effects on my metabolism.
There are some very nasty viruses out there, as quite
a few of our customers can say who didn't get NAV and
lost quite a few things on their hard drives or found
sensitive files had been sent to a random person in
their address book. Not to mention the spyware that we
found on their hard drives.

This morning one of my colleagues showed me an
HTML-formatted email with a VBScript in it that would
eject all your removable media. Even if that's just a
prank, it goes to show that many things can be easily
accomplished by malevolent minds.
And when I compare the things I have to face on my
Outlook-equipped Win2K machine at work, to the safety
of my MacOSX iBook, I can only support Richard's
claim.

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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