[muglo] Re: motto

Is there really anyone out there running a PC without anti-virus? If  
Their machine will filter it out on receipt, isn't another filter on  
the sender(Mac or PC) redundant and therefore a waste of money? If you  
have to use Windows on your Mac, why on earth would you surf the web  
or send/receive emails while in that mode? Death wish?
On Dec 12, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

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>> work? I used to routinely warn people that an attachment generated by
>> me was safe, but anything I forwarded from someone else was risky. Is
>> it safe to assume that these programs will find all cross-platform
>> bugs regardless of the operating system in use at the time?
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> There is nothing that OS X.x does that would make a virus safe for a  
> windows user, so if you pass along a virus it won't infect you but  
> it will still be contagious to a vulnerable windows machine.  You  
> have in fact become a carrier of the virus enabling it continue it's  
> work elsewhere, if you ran antivirus on your machine you would strip  
> the file out of the message and stop that particular branch of it.   
> All in all if it is a virus that is particularly nasty you won't  
> affect the big picture but you may help out a friend, relative or  
> acquaintance by running anti virus software.
>
> Gerhard
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