Good idea. If enough people do that, they may actually become popular enough that the hackers and virus writers will go to the trouble of writing stuff that attacks them. That would divert attention from the Windows machines. Macs are not inherently harder to hack or write a virus for. They just exist in much smaller numbers, so most of the bad guys don't bother. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> > > Sure. Switch to a mac... > > ;D > > On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:16 AM, Hieu Q wrote: > > > Just wondering if anything could be done about the > > recent harvesting of addresses |
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