Microsoft wants you to "Get the Facts Straight"

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 11:29:30 BST 2009


2009/9/10 Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>:

>> Windoze 7 isn't good enough. Think man 5,000 viruses that can attack
>> windoze 7, and only 500 that can attack linux. I don't know how many
>> viruses that can attack a Mac.

> Huh? 500 viruses that can attack Linux? You have the list or something?


The numbers were 100,000 Windows/DOS viruses in the wild ten years
ago; I can't imagine them having gone down.

Meanwhile, the number of Linux and Mac viruses in the wild remains a steady 0.


- d.



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