MESSAGE
| DATE | 2002-06-10 |
| FROM | Kevin Milani
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Symantec Website
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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).
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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