Quoting Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While it's fine to talk theory, the facts of the matter are fairly > clear.
Are they? > We run mail servers that see tens of millions of messages monthly > on behalf of 15,000 users. I run much smaller ones... > Out of the thousands of different viruses > we've encountered over the years, we've never seen one that wasn't sent > from ms windows. I've seen MacOS and Linux machines send (via email attachments) MS macro virus infected files... This fails your tests. I wonder why you don't see that with your much larger base. I can't prove it, but I'm fairly sure some non-Windows mail user has forwarded on some virus to others (or even themselves) at some point... Users are that way... Sure, they originate on Windows. They may only act on Windows (or not). But that doesn't mean a non-Windows person can't be, or isn't, in the middle of the distribution (either forwarding it on, or sending the MS Doc back out with macro virus intact, spreading the Phishing e-mails along, etc). > Perhaps our sample size is too small Mine is a fraction of that size, and I've seen it happen. So maybe your analysis isn't the same as mine? > but it certainly seems that this > whole overhyped idea of viruses apart from ms windows is a non-issue in > practice. No, it is a very small issue, but still an issue. Let's face it, Windows is >99% of the problem, but that doesn't mean they are 100%. Is that last fraction of a percent worth worry about or acting on? That's a different question. > Joe -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns! _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
