Re: OT: Update Virus Checker

In article <Xns975C51DA432C0R3344324357788499939@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, GaryM
<gmaddr-usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> rw <rw56_to_the_chase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:UMyDf.3611$5E3.2023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > Well, it would "exempt" your computer from infection by this
> > particular virus, as well as by any other computer virus that's
> > ever existed.
>
> I did not take the original poster's suggestion the we all move to Apple
> based purely on this single virus.
>
No. It was based on the point, which Royal Wulff rightly made, that
they're not bothered by viruses at all.

Lazarus
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