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On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 11:12 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've got all y'all beat, then. I've been using PCs avidly since the AT </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> was first available. (Before that I was using various flavours of VAX </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and PDP-11.) I have never once been infected by a computer virus but </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> for the one time I stupidly allowed a student to use my computer for </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> five minutes to print a report. The moron left his floppy in my machine </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and rebooted. That virus was gone about fifteen seconds after it was </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> placed there.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I have been using Linux exclusively for less than a year.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Using DOS/Windows does not make viruses automatic by any stretch of the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> imagination.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Indeed. I have been using PCs sine the first AT too, and Windows </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">since its first incarnation, and I have never had a virus either.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">But I am definitely not a typical user, </FONT>
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Well, guilty as charged there. Due to certain... how shall I put this delicately?... unsavoury elements of my university days I'm very keenly aware of security issues.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">and I haven't used </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Internet Explorer since I discovered Opera (and, later, Firefox), </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">nor have I ever used Outlook or Outlook Express.</FONT>
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I, on the other hand, used Internet Explorer until Firefox 1.05 was released. And both Outlooks until the day I moved everything over, kit and kaboodle, to Linux. Still no viruses, adware, trojans, etc.<BR>
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