"thunder" wrote in message
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On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:09:47 +0000, Calif Bill wrote:


As to virus's, if
it was the majority PC operating system, there would be as many viral
infestions as with MS.

As I haven't dealt with error handling, I can't comment, but the above
clearly isn't true. In the past, as "features", MS has opened so many
doors to virii you have to question their value of security. True, now,
they seem to be making an attempt, but geez, they still have a long way to
go.

Something else to consider, while *nix systems haven't made huge inroads
on to the desktop, in the server market, they both have a considerable
share, and, guess what, still no virii. Well, I'm told there is one.
Look, no OS is completely secure, but Linux takes security seriously, MS,
just recently, has seemed to. I'll wait and see how well.

Most of the virus are similar to others. There are even virus generating
programs. Why you see so many virus with the same basic name, just
varients. There is not a lot of call for writing virus for *nix systems as
it is a low percentage. As to Severs, how many down load and run a program?
Most would run with the server program in ROM and the only ram is for data.