"Martin 53N 1W" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in message
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SoT wrote:

Martin 53N 1W wrote:

(And viruses simply cannot exist in the first place on other OSes. No
'antivirus' kludges needed.)

They can't?  Why not?

Indeed they can't.

The 'unrestricted access' that viruses (and malware) can exploit on
Microsoft products is very greatly and securely restricted on all other
multiuser OSes.

Like BSD? HPUX? SCO? ULTRIX? Linux? Sun?

http://www.insecure.org/sploits.html

(Yeah, it's old news but it illustrates that exploits are all over the
place, although I will admit M$ does tend to have more than its fair share
of the market!)