Re: FW: Virus alert(no audi content)

[Alexei M Voloshin <Alexei.M.Voloshin-1@tc.umn.edu>]

Can we please keep the non-car computer viruses out of this list??

Thanks,
Alex

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Mike Williams wrote:

> you know, I could write one of these also and probably scare alot of people
> with it, but this is clearly false.  I will tell you why.  Number one, any
> virus that could attack al O/S systems would be pretty huge.  The kind of
> programming that would be required to affect all IBM compatible computers
> as well as all Mac O/S computers is incredibly complex as they use
> completely different programming languages.
> there is also the fact that as well as the complexity needed to be cross
> platform, it would have to be very complex as well to search through the
> information on a hard drive and somhow interpret passwords and send them
> out to others.
> 
> But of course this is my humble opinion because i am not a programmer, I am
> jsut a computer user.  So any of you who whish to flog me for these
> comments, please do.
> 
> I would also like to take the time to say that, if you truly are worried
> about computer virii, then buy a Macintosh.  As well as being the most
> technologically advanced in hardware and processors, it also has a total of
> about 20-30 viruses total for the computer, and none of them are very
> severe at all and can be completely eradicated using a virus detecting
> software.   So if any of you want to say anything to me about this, i would
> wlcome a personal debate of Wintel vs the Mac.
> Bye all and sorry for the length of the post.
> 
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