A> Russell Kent wrote:

Paul Lamar wrote:

There is also a lot more security features in Linux like its heavy into
permissions.

Not to mention the fact that there are probably dozens of significant variations
of Linux out there, which seriously fragments the infectable population (for any
one virus, that is).  In contrast the Windows monoculture of millions of identical
targets is much too choice a target for the virus writers today, and will likely
remain so for many years to come.

Russell Kent

Don Dunbar wrote
I have used TheBat e-mail program for the past three years without a
virus problem. TheBat will not open a virus as they are all written
for Micro-soft programs. One day I had a problem that I could not open
an e-mail from a friend in TheBat and I opened up Outlook Express to view this
e-mail and it activated on download and killed all the jpeg file on the
computer. I also use Opera as a browser and this program dies if a
virus tries to come through. It closes down and you have to restart
the program but saves all windows you have open.

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