Warning...

Howard Lester got an email with my address with an infected attachment
of some kind on it, although I didn't send him anything. Might be a
little careful of anything that looks like it's from me for a while...
Marty

Marty:
Howard Lester got an email with my address with an infected attachment
of some kind on it, although I didn't send him anything. Might be a
little careful of anything that looks like it's from me for a while...

Thanks for the warning, but no worries, mate; I use Macs...

Davoud

--
usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

Marty wrote:

Howard Lester got an email with my address with an infected attachment
of some kind on it, although I didn't send him anything. Might be a
little careful of anything that looks like it's from me for a while...
Marty


"An Apple a day keeps Bill Grrrrrates away"

Nice Martyshine today in central Iowa!

John Steinberg (fan of MAC Davis?) writes:

I do hereby certify the above as unabashed troll bait. Respond at your
own peril.


I have heard RUMORS that there's a new MAC called the FLEETWOOD.



--
Martin
http://home.earthlink.net/~martinhowell

Malware (viruses, trojans, worms) sucks. At least that's what I've
heard. Being a lifelong Mac user my only exposure to same is indirect, as when
these infections undermine the rest of the computer using
universe.

Here's a nice link:

http://antivirus.about.com/cs/macintoshthreats/

Suggestion: Throw out your Windows OS and install Linux or buy a Mac!


[This suggestion does NOT apply to Chris L. Peterson, as he's one of a
dozen people in the known universe that actually finds WinXP more
aesthetically appealing than OS X snort]

You can put me on that list as well. Lots of reasons to stick with Windows.
For me, I still run DOS and Win 3.1 programs under XP. Besides that fact that
these programs never existed for the Mac, it is nice that they still run 10 or
15 years later.

(For those of you who don't believe that PC programs exist that will do things
Macs cannot, try this one: Read Nicolet 4094 data off the Nicolet 5.25in 720K
disks with that proprietary Nicolet format. Its a plus that it got the bar
dispersion correction built in.....)


jon

Martin said:

I have heard RUMORS that there's a new MAC called the FLEETWOOD.


Martin,

In England, we spell it "RUMOURS"
Oh, Well. . .

Now, don't ask me what I think of you, cause I might not tell you what you
want me to.


John

Ï "Jon Isaacs" Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá
...


Malware (viruses, trojans, worms) sucks. At least that's what I've
heard. Being a lifelong Mac user my only exposure to same is indirect, as
when
these infections undermine the rest of the computer using
universe.

Here's a nice link:

http://antivirus.about.com/cs/macintoshthreats/

Very nice link! Most of the sublinks are dead or obsolete.
It appears that David Harley has sold the sherpa domain, so I have no idea
where he keeps the MacVirus FAQ now.

A quick search in google though reveals a plethora of links for it:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/macintosh-faq/

And at least one Mac antivirus author in there is an amateur astronomer
:*)))))

[snip]
jon
--
Ioannis Galidakis
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/jgal/
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Eventually, _everything_ is understandable

"Sam Wormley" wrote in message
...

"An Apple a day keeps Bill Grrrrrates away"

Yeah, right. Mac users never use Microsoft Word for Macintosh,
Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Entourage, MSN,
MSN Messenger, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Microsoft,
Microsoft, Microsoft. And Mac users certainly never use Microsoft
hardware like Microsoft keyboards and Microsoft mice.

Haven't tried to do that (doesn't sound like a particularly mainstream
issue) but I can and do run Virtual PC on my Macs for just about any PC
program that I need,

Can't run that one and thats the one I need to run.

Can
you run *any* OS X apps on your Win PC?

Do I need to run any OS-X apps on my PC?

Nope.

Frankly, your comment above is tantamount to my saying I can run a
Mac-only program and you can't.

You recommended that we XP users switch to OS-X. I am just pointing out that
for me to do so would be foolish, I couldn't run the apps I need to run.

Jon

In article ,
John Steinberg wrote:
Jon Isaacs wrote:

Here's a nice link:

http://antivirus.about.com/cs/macintoshthreats/

What's nice about it? There are no Mac OS X threats (other than
clueless PC users, careless programmers and a behemoth in Redmond that
can spend many months creating a single critical patch.) None, Jon. No
malware of any consequence for OS X.

People who are religious zealots about their favourite computers are
amusing -- up to a point....

The reason there are relatively few threats to OS X is that it has
fairly few users. If it should become a mainstream OS, then it
would be just as intensely targeted by virus authors as Windows is
today.


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