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Subject: Re: The _real_ reason not to install windows

Author: Joshua Haglund

Date: 13:04:23 08/15/04

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On August 14, 2004 at 10:42:24, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On August 13, 2004 at 23:23:00, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>So I finally decided to port Zappa back to windows, and I installed a relatively
>>old version of Windows XP.  I can only say that I had 7 copies of various viri
>>and worms on my system before I even finished with the security updates.  THAT
>>is the number one reason to run linux.
>>
>>anthony
>
>It is  now the wild , wild west for windows users.  Your machine will not
>survive attacks without strong anti-virus and security software that is kept
>updated.  This must be a boom to Symantec and others in that genre.

I once thought it was Symantec and others creating those viruses etc. If they
didn't have people creating them. Some people would be out of jobs. Also the the
main thing, MONEY!

Joshua Haglund
toneewa@yahoo.com



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