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"Fred the Red Shirt" wrote in message
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You can say that all you want but that doesn't make it so.
I'll explain again why it is not so:

It sounds like you never heard of the "Join the Crew Virus"
or Windows XP. All of the Linuxes, Unixes, and OSX are
more secure BY DESIGN. They were designed to NOT
execute code sent to a machine over the internet by
an anonymous third party. Microsoftware was DESIGNED
to execute code sent to a computer over the internet by
an anonymous third party.


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Well I am sure that every thing you say here is true, today. But security
be design is going to be cracked by some one. The strong point to all the
other systems security is that 99% of the people spamming and sending out
viruses are concentrating on the easy target. As long as other systems are
not as widely useful as Windows the attraction is going to be low. Until
another OS gets the attention that Windows does by the spammers no really
knows what holes of methods can be devised in the future to cause havoc. To
think that your set up is impenetrable is to be a bit naive.