On Thu, July 21, 2005 10:10, Elizabeth Baker said: > Just because there are millions of Windows viruses out there and maybe > half a dozen for the other systems, doesn't mean that they don't get > any *ever*. And if everyone started using Macs or the same flavour of > Linux I bet there would be more viruses. It's possible however if they were they wouldn't be as damaging. The Windows model means that most users effectively run as "root" (I think it's called "administrator" isn't it?) all the time, so any infection has root privileges and can do *anything* to your PC. On Linux (and Mac OS too I suspect) users are running as themselves and hence so does any infection so the damage that can be done is far more limited. Gosh this is all getting a bit tech for milton-chat: time we got back to rat runners. ;-) -- Paul