Edwin admits to his lies Was: More virus education for Maccies
I do. I did, just the other day -- then I turned and found it was the couch across the room talking as it paddled down a river, and it started singing, and then I was riding a goat with a snorkel, and the snorkel had a mouth that told me I had to use the bathroom.
Gee, all of these put together must add up to what - a couple dozen? Particularly since Windows comes with a firewall and...
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If Windows can run DOS code, it can run most of the DOS viruses. Doesn't Windows runs much of DOS with the same files that it used to?
And yet causing the same amount of damage; that is a good reason to suggest this number can't be right.
Sure there is -- the same places where they are reporting the Windows viruses. In most cases, these are platform-agnostic surveys, not platform dependent.
A virus encountered by a single member is a virus that was found. It isn't incidental; it's still important. It would help to show us how important if the list showed us how many of each of the others were encountered by each member.
I don't understand that. Wildlist says the list is cumulative, but also says that viruses are added and removed. In each report. I thought it was supposed to be a report of viruses actually encountered by their 80 members, but some of what they write doesn't fit that.
How do you figure that? What that count would show (if it were proven) is that fewer different viruses are doing the damage than the industry typically reports. It doesn't change the amount of damage, and it doesn't make it easier to fight against -- you are reporting the number of viruses that is doing the damage, not reducing the potential damage for the future.