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Re: email virus/worm



Bernard Cleyet said... "You forgot the most important cure; switch to
an Apple platform machine."

If we all switched to Apples, then the virus writers would start writing
worms and viruses that target Apples. The only reason they don't do it
now is because the Apple population is not high enough to make it
worthwhile. So, if telling us we should switch to Apples to avoid
viruses would actually convince most of us to do just that, then the
advice would ultimately end up being wrong, and Apple users would start
going through the same crap the rest of us go through to buy and
maintain antivirus software, etc.

Be careful what you hope for.

Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Physics
Bluffton College
Bluffton, OH 45817
(419)-358-3270
edmiston@bluffton.edu