Re: XP has no significant bugs that any significant number of users want fixed

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:04:30 -0400, Charles Schuler <charleschuler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>> I ain't flaming you, but I think you need to see how viruses work before
>> you can declare every OS to be vulnerable to hackers. Its one thing to
>> break into a computer, its another to be able to take it over. Can't do
>> that with a MAC, linux, OS/2, or actually, any other OS. Just windows.

>You have made an unequivocal statement and you are dead wrong. There is
>nothing special about Windows, other than its popularity.
and the fact that any process can write to any part of the system at any
time.
.

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