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To: mozek who wrote (45174)	5/24/2000 12:41:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) of 74651

mozek Sorry for the delay. I had a hard time locating the source. It states quite explicitly that there have been far more viruses active on Windows than any other desktop system in use over the last 12 years: usatoday.com More than 45,000 viruses infect PCs running the Windows operating system worldwide. Several have caused billions of dollars in damage in the past 12 months. Hundreds more viruses appear each year, requiring armies of anti-virus programmers to isolate and kill the offending bugs. By contrast, perhaps 35 viruses have been written for the Macintosh and four or five for the Unix-based computers that run most Web sites, says Eugene Spafford, director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security lab at Purdue University. So, you've never been attacked by a virus in ALL your years on the internet??? So, neither have I. So what?? Millions of others have. Are you blaming them for NOT having the intelligence to get the latest and greatest anti-virus software on the market??? If you are, you are following the M$FT philosophy to the letter: it's called blame the end-user or pass-the-buck-and-sell-them- more-software. Why should a consumer of network services have to buy a "personal firewall"???? That's absurd mozek. When network appliances become available, there won't be any more arguments about this. All the dumb consumers who don't want to get more anti-virus software will just buy the service and not worry about security breeches.

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