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| DATE | 2002-06-10 |
| FROM | Adam Kosmin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Symantec Website
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How did Symantec reply to your request?
Adam
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:54:13AM -0400, Kevin Milani wrote:
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> I seem to be getting e-mail from people I don't know mentioning the
> Klez.E worm. So I went to the Symantic (Norton Antivirus) website to
> read up on the virus and at the end of their definition they state the
> Operating Systems that are affected (all Windows variants) and those not
> affected (Macintosh).
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> I was a little bit miffed by the exclusion of Linux from the list of
> non-affected Operating Systems. So I wrote Symantec a suggestion that
> they give us the status of Linux OS as well especially since the market
> share must be as big, if not bigger than the Mac OS market share. Maybe
> we should start a campaign to the virus companies to get them to mention
> that Linux doesn't have the virus issues that Windows/Outlook has.
>
> Also, I hate running anti-virus software because it wreaks havoc with
> Windows, yet now I can't be sure whether my windows machine has that
> dumb virus without running some sort of virus scan. It may be time to
> convert my last Windows machine to Linux. I have a lot of clients who
> require Word documents, but Open Office 1.0 seems to be working very
> well with regard to Word documents and I always have my Mac OS 9.1 which
> also works well with Word.
>
> So good bye Windows, I won't miss you.
>
> Kevin
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