Viruses

[KennyR]

You should remember that sometimes people don't mean to send you the viruses, but get infected and the virus automatically mails itself to all the addresses stored in the addressbook.

Windows users without proper virus scanning software and firewalling should be banned from the internet. They're just a liability.

[KennyR]

I don't use Windows, Mike.

[KennyR]

Maybe they should just ban Windows users, period

[KennyR]

And?

And this is the pinnacle of user-education, no? ;-)

[KennyR]

JaXanim, there is absolutely no way these kind of virii can infect an Amiga. They aren't binary compatible, they aren't API compatible, and Amiga's don't have the same security holes. SoBig is a worm - it needs to be run as executable code. An Amiga simply cannot do this.

See Norton's security response on the virus, here.