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Subject: Re: virus
From: "qukza" <>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:30:09 -0000
Walt just doesn't know how much fun it is to be on the Dark Side. He
drank some of Uncle Steve's special Kool-Aid and got religion.

Joking aside, there's a good basic guide to securing a computer here:
http://www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity/.




--- In  Jeremy Minns
<> wrote:
>
> >And, let's face it, most of the destructive
> >type people use windows, mac folks tend to not be that type of
personality.
>
> Perhaps use of a mac is not a sign of moral superiority. It may be
that the
> destructive personalites choose Windows because it's more
vulnerable and
> has more users so that a successful virus will have greater impact.
>
> >Windows users are partially to blame by often not being interested
enough
> >to find out what to do.
>
> And we Windows users not only tend to a certain type of personality
but are
> careless as well. It makes me quite ashamed to own a PC!
>
> Jeremy



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