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Julian Hall wrote: > > Quote from a friend who still runs Windows 98. 'Nobody's writing viruses > for it anymore so it's probably the safest Microsoft OS to have.' :) There are still plenty around - Windows malware has extraordinary long lives due to the huge user base of systems that aren't patched. Which is kind of my point, I dare say if you install a Redhat 7.0 box unpatched on the Internet it won't last long before it picks up that nasty worm that was all that rage a few years ago, as someone somewhere will have an infected host still scanning the net. But it might well last a few days or weeks before being infected, just because there ain't a lot of Redhat 7 around as it has either been owned, or replaced. Of course desktops which don't offer services are owned slower so folks may take longer to stumble on one of those magical websites or emails that makes their documents disappear. I had fun trying to remove a Windows 95/98 virus a while back that (eventually) writes "you are stupid" over all the MS Office files it can find. I thought the XBox 360 was the safest Microsoft OS around, the last security patch was only to prevent those with physical access running their own code ;)
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