Re: OT Question for the Compu-Savy

Dave Cartman <vern93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have XP on my computer for my doodads that have XP only proprietary
software like my Garmin GPS update software. I also use it if I want to
see how a website I'm working on looks under XP and finally, I show my
friends who would never get a Mac because "there's no software for them"
or "my company says I have to use XP" or whatever. I rarely even let my
XP side see the intternet though and as of today, the OS X system has
been completely immune to any virus or spyware. (Yeah, I know there's
some "proof of concept" stuff floating around out there - but so far so
good.

As far as I know, no XP virus is managing to corrupt the OS X side. I
run all the anti virus, anti spyware stuff on my XP side 'cause it's fun
to see it find stuff. But there's no mainstream type application that I
know of that can't be easily run on a Mac. I'm also getting more and
more fond of the opensource source stuff the sourceforge guys turn out.


The software I need to earn a living doesn't run under OS/X, and I'll
be damned if I'm going to reboot to look up a manual or issue on the
intertubes, especially consodering that in 17 years of running
Windows, I've never had a virus, YMMV.

-klaus

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