On Mon, 30 May 2005 11:22:48 GMT, in article
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     ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd "Martin 53N 1W" wrote:

If you really are worried of such things, then I strongly suggest you 
move over to another OS rather than Microsoft... (Viruses are just one 
problem with MS. The security problems run much deeper.)

You assume wa-a-ay too much.

Just because I'm using a DOS-based newsreader, don't assume that I'm using 
Micky$hit for anything of consequence.  It just happens that this news 
setup has worked for me since I started on the Internet with KA9Q on an 
8086 PC.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Most of my desktop is on another machine on Linux/KDE, and the mail 
service and crunchers are running on Linux machines.  Nothing sensitive 
has anything touches 'Doze.  I'm not complacent about security, but I'm 
more concerned about deliberate hidden abuse embedded in projects like 
BOINC.  I don't have the time to audit the code myself, and I no longer 
trust the commercially influenced motives.  If all they wanted to do 
was "more science" they could simply have rolled out an expanded 
S@h client.  The very fact that there's a more complex project afoot 
suggests that a different agenda is now in play.
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