On Monday 18 February 2008 08:57, Bob Estes wrote: > > The vet I take my pets to doesn't accept email, because of all the > > viruses etc., he was always getting. He doesn't seem to realize that > > running Windows is the cause of the problem and he wouldn't have to > > worry about that, if he ran Linux. > > That's because Linux only has a very small segment of the market. If Linux > gains a larger market share, then the idiots that write viruses will begin > to write viruses for Linux.
So how come there are so few viruses that attack Unix based servers and so many that attack Windows based servers, although Unix and its descendants are in the majority and Windows servers in the minority? Could it just be that the OSs are intrinsically more secure? Lisi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
