Digital BW, The Print

Ahhhh come on - I was only teasing!


> From: Bob Frost <bob@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:49:10 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] smaller Mac market
> 
> Steve,
> 
>> And the PC boys
>> are still happy with their ugly, clumsy, virus ridden black boxes!
> 
> You really must get out a bit more. The beauty of the PC world is that PC's
> come in an almost infinite variety of shapes, sizes, and colours. You can
> even get transparent ones with flashing lights inside!
> 
> Mac owners are lucky I suppose that few virus writers waste their time
> targeting Macs, but PC owners who get viruses only have themselves to blame.
> With a firewall and a viruschecker (which update themselves automatically -
> you don't even have to click on one button) and similar automatic updates of
> Windows, viruses are not a problem. I've five PC's and never had a virus
> infection. Yes, I get viruses sent to me, but my ISP removes most of them
> and sends me a cleaned email, and on the rare occasion that that doesn't
> work, my viruschecker identifies it and removes it. So viruses shouldn't be
> a reason for not using a PC. If you can use Photoshop, you should have the
> brains to take precautions against viruses, trojans, and the like. Spam is a
> far bigger problem than viruses to me, but there again, you can make your
> own filters in Outlook Express (I find this is better than letting your ISP
> filter spam - they tend to take out most Yahoo groups emails).
> 
> Vive la difference - between PCs.  ;)
>