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[J. Forster]

MS is attacked most for the same reason as criminals rob banks:

It's where the money is.

Spammers want as many hits as possible on their sites, so they try an
infect as many 'puters as possible. That means MS stuff. Period.

-John

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> Dave,
>
> I have heard of a couple of Mac viruses, but have no experience with them,
> and after
> 30 years of comupting have only had one or two experiences with any of
> that on
> Micro$oft OS too. To avoid the vulnerabilities of Outlook, I have always
> used Pegasus
> for e-mail (free) which has prevented 100% of e-mail based infections.
> I use a router-switch for accessing the internet, which cuts out 99% of
> the web based stuff.
> AVG takes car of the rest and it's free.
>
> Why Microsoft is still so impotent and incompetent that they can't prevent
> this sort of thing
> after this many years is quite astounding.
>
> On 17 Nov 2012 at 11:37, Dave Harmon wrote:
>
> From:           	"Dave Harmon" <k6xyz at sbcglobal.net>
>
>>    Viruses, spyware and malware as we know them, are purely a
>> Micro$oft
>> phenomenon.
>
>
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