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On Mar 14, 2006, Paul Sutton was like: > to promote decent software that does > not suffer from this constant virus, spyware, nonsense Is this because virus writers target Windows systems Would this be different if the majority of the systems in the world ran Linux and we got targeted? For example is it possible that I have received an attachment that contains a virus but I don't notice because it won't run? Then again we run all sorts of different versions and different mailers so the virus would have a hard time finding the addressbook. I have heard people defend Windows on the grounds that it is a de facto standard so everyone is doing the same thing and maybe this is what makes them vulnerable. Interesting program on the radio yesterday about viruses. Took me back a few years. Do you remember the Italian virus -- that put a bouncing ball on the screen? Shame the program didn't mention Linux though. Especially since it wzs about a Finnish anti-virus company :-) Tony Sumner -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html