On 05/20/05 02:41, Henry Nettles wrote:

> 2) Microsoft products are hit by viruses more often than others (IE
> versus Firefox, or Windows versus Linux) because they are a much
> bigger target. The sick, demented people who write viruses are
> looking for attention. Microsoft is the target of virus writers, not
> Linux, for the same reason that the terrorists flew airplanes into the
> World Trade Center, not into a grain silo in Podunk, Iowa.

While I agree on most of what you write, I'm arguing on the last
sentence. It is true that "MS products are hit by viruses more often
than others because they are a much bigger target", but also of the lack
of security that MS products had in past years.

Back in the MSDOS era the concept of multi-user system was not in their
mind and the idea of a 'system administrator' was something left to
mainframes. Unfortunately they kept this concept in the era of internet
and started to change when it was too late.

Ciao
Giovanni
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