On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:20:04 +1000, Geoffrey Heard, gheard@SURF.NET.AU, wrote: >On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 3:50 AM, Benjamin Cramer <mailto:truempyi@YAHOO.COM> >wrote: >>At Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:19:31 -0500, Robert B. Waltz, >>waltzmn@SKYPOINT.COM, wrote: >> >>>it has a macro language which is safe to use, because there aren't >>>10 million or so virus writers targeting it. >> >>Theorem: the number of viruses targeting a computer program is directly >>proportional to that program's market share. One good reason to hope MS >>maintains strong sales ;-> >> > >Hang on a minute, Ben, this the Heard Theory of Viral Relativity! >Acknowledgement please! 8-D> > >I put the same idea forward on the FreeHand list a while back as one of a >number of reasons Macs don't get Melissa threatened. Another Mac owner was >quite put out -- saying our platform was safer because of the smaller >numbers in the world was diminishing the importance of Macs, he said, and >anyway, you should have seen the chaos for a day and a half in their studio >when the .... bug went through on Mac... > >cheers, geoff Hey Geoff, we've got to get to the bottom of this. I first formulated the Cramer Proportionality Hypothesis last fall when my advisor was saying that the best anti-virus software available was a Mac. Does that give me precedence? I still haven't done the tests to prove it, though. Ben -- Benjamin Cramer Geological Sciences, Rutgers University Wright Geological Laboratory 610 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 ph: (732)445-0688 / fax: (732)445-3374
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