From: Mike Ryan (mike94109_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 21:34:04 EDT
No offense intended but your repsonse is silly Aryeh
and typical of the Microsoft way of fear mongering.
Our firm has used OS/2 since its original release -
some ten years now and we have had hundreds,
probably thousands, of OS/2 systems running over the
internet. We send and receive Excel, Access, and Word
documents (viewed/edited through IBM SmartSuite for
OS/2 which includes filters for those documents).
Never once has any one of our OS/2 systems ever been
infected with any type of virus nor have we ever been
found to or accused of spreading a non-OS/2 virus in
any attachment. We are an accounting firm and we send
and receive files and messages like everyone else. We
do not employ any anti-virus software. What
difference (to any OS/2 user) would it matter if a
WinX virus arrived with a file download? Nothing
because it can't invoke itself in an OS/2 environment
despite your claims that it could somehow seep into
the OS/2 boot sector (it can't). An OS/2 system
doesn't see, recognize nor will it implement or cause
any harm to OS/2. I have had WinX friends innocently
and purposely send me documents and files with WinX
viri, either unknowingly or on purpose, and I've never
encountered a problem. Don't run Microsoft and you
won't need anti-virus protection.
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Mike
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