On Apr 4, 7:08 am, "J. Clarke" wrote:
Maxwell Lol wrote:
Fred the Red Shirt writes:

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.

Except when you screw up. The iPhone runs as superuser, and not
an
unpriviledged user. This is one reason why it was so easy to hack.

According to McAfee (and a large number of other sources) the "Join
the Crew Virus" was a hoax.


That's the point.

You can't get a virus just by reading email.

Or rather you couldn't until Microsoft began
writing email clients.

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FF