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Date:         Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:03:49 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Preston <Mp3Bus@FOKUST.COM>
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From:         Don Preston <Mp3Bus@FOKUST.COM>
Subject:      Re: infected files, Linux gets more viruses?
Comments: To: "Samuel L. Walters" <samuel.walters@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To:  <3F731883.2060006@verizon.net>
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(Including the Vanagon list as this got me all sorts of flame mail, as MS advocacy tends to do to me..)

I realize my comments may have been a bit on the harsh side, and I would like to apologize. I'm not quite at my best before my morning coffee. ;-)

Here's a quick link to information about my statements. I have more at home that I can dig up later, but a little googling will find them.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jun/gee20030605020295.htm

Thanks,

Don Preston '87 Wolfy GL ASI ~Betsy the Mp3 Bus~

-----Original Message----- From: Samuel L. Walters [mailto:samuel.walters@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:32 AM To: Don Preston

Don,

I don't use Outlook for the very reason that so many try to attack it because they hate MS, but I do keep Norton AntiVirus loaded and have it updated daily. I also get all of the MS patches within a day or two of when they notify me of them.

I think that since so many computer "experts" continuously state that Linux rarely if ever gets hit by viruses, that I want to ask you what is the source of your allegation about Linux and virus attacks - you didn't do any better in documentation of your assertion than the person you criticized.

I don't mean that to sound hostile, but as a request for information, because I frequently think about setting up at least one computer with Linux. For a number of years, I regularly read computer magazines, but now don't very often so I could have missed obvious sources of this information. But this is the first time I have ever heard or read the assertion you make and I have heard and read the contrary dozens and dozens of times.

But, I have no problem with gaining new information and changing a perception.

Thanks in advance,

Sam

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