Re: OT: Update Virus Checker

"Russell D." <rmd@xxxxxxxx> wrote in news:448f6pFt86pU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Daniel-San wrote:
>> "rw" wrote in message ...
>>
>>>In general, OS X is intrinsically FAR more secure than Windows,
>>>which IMO is a massive kludge of an OS, full of dangerous flaws due
>>>to backward compatibility constraints and just plain poor design.
>>
>>
>> Truly curious here, why?
>>
> The biggest reason is simply numbers. The crackers that have no life
> and get their jollies from writing the viruses, trojans, etc. that
> exploit flaws in computer code want to do damage to as many computers
> as they can so the pick on the most common--Microsoft operating
> systems and applications.
>
> Also, by design, many other operating systems like Unix, Linux and OS
> X are less prone to damage from attacks. For example, the laptop that
> I am writing this on is running Suse Linux. Linux has two main levels
> of login. "Root" is the highest level. Only "root" can make changes to
> the operating system that can affect the way the the system runs. As
> long as I am not logged in as "root," even if I were to open some
> email attachment that contained some Linux attack it could do no
> damage to the operating system because my normal user login does not
> have permission to make changes. I hope that is at least as clear as
> mud.
>
>
>>

> It is very difficult to completely remove Internet Explorer from your
> computer and you probably don't want to anyway. I keep it around
> because once in awhile you will run into a web site that will only
> work correctly in IE. I always try to send the web master of such site
> a friendly note that I won't be back if I can't open his site in
> Firefox.

....too true Russell, and with all the extensions available, Firefox has to
be a winner! The "view this page in IE" gets used occasionally, which is
the *only* reason to have IE around.

Frank Sr.
.

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