Russell Kent wrote:

Paul Lamar rashly claimed:

The vast majority of the computer viruses are written for I.E.

OK Paul, what's your factual basis for this claim?  Yep, just like I thought.

In point of fact, most "viruses" are written as payloads for email messages to be run on (read:
infect) Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.  It just so happens that a significant number of those payloads
take advantage of security "issues" in Outlook Express _NOT_ Internet Explorer.  In order for a
virus to be classified as "written for I.E." it would be necessary for your PC to be infected merely
by browsing web pages.  Such baddies exist (and lucky for us they're damned hard to write), but they
are a very small minority.

I'm no fan of Microsoft, but let's keep the blame where it belongs (and out of > the ACRE  newsletter)...

Russell Kent

OK! OK! So I made a minor mistake! Out Look Express is not Internet Explorer.
Same O! Same O!  I don't use the silly things very often so how
would I know? :-)

BTW I noticed that more and more spam (junk email) is crashing Netscape 
4.75 and 4.8. Why do you think that is? I had to turn on Earthlink's
Spaminator, which BTW, is working great.

Paul Lamar
 
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