Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jefffery Smith)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:51:52 -0500
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Is it because every time they upgrade the operating system, you have  
to buy virus upgrades for them to work?  ;-)       I love the Mac, but  
some backward compatibility would be nice.

Jeffery


On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

>
>> Macs are not less vulnerable, they are less common, and so are the  
>> malware
>> written for it.
>
> No, Macs really are less vulnerable. The reasons why are too off- 
> topic for me to rant about here. Macs are not invulnerable, but they  
> are far far less vulnerable.
>
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Replies: Reply from spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers)
In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers)
Message from mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope) ([Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers)
Message from matthew at hunt.tc (Matthew Hunt) ([Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers)
Message from mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope) ([Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Leica] OT: A pox on all virus and malware writers)