[PLUG] Re: Linux on the desktop

["George Langford, Sc.D." <amenex@amenex.com>]

Hello PLUG !

mct wrote:

> This past Sunday you sent mail to plug-admin informing us
> that you spotted a virus on the PLUG list, and advised that 
> we may want to notify list members that they may be at risk 
> for infection -- a topic which had already previously been 
> raised on the list in the last month or so.  Less than 24 hours 
> later, on Monday morning, you sent the same warning to the
> list yourself.  Was there something more you were expecting 
> us to do?

Here's what I actually wrote:

> Linux users appear to be lulled into a false sense of security 
> that leaves their emails vulnerable to infections.

I implied that some Linux users are inconsiderate and that the 
Linux message isn't going to be well received by interested WinPC 
users unless this mailing list at least gets some adequate 
method of stopping the propagation of viruses. That has been
discussed.  And no, I don't open attachments, and yes, there
are other means by which these malicious codes infect 'puters,
so avoiding attachments isn't an adequate means of protection
any more. What I lost in this exchange was most of two issues
of the PLUG Digest.  They seem of less value now.

The virus that prompted my original posting was the first that I
received from the PLUG Digest.  It was properly intercepted by
my NAV.  My concern wasn't selfish in the sense of an anguished
squeal about getting a virus; nor that you were or were not 
warning the Digest readers about virus attacks (of which I would
hope that they already quite aware), but instead that you are
kidding yourselves if you think that the virus war is being fought
on someone else's territory.

Best regards,
George Langford, Sc.D.
amenex@amenex.com
http://www.amenex.com/
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