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Tuesday, October 7, 2003
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Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact? "An article at The Register, authored by Scott Granneman of SecurityFocus, examines the conventional wisdom that if Linux or Mac OS X were as popular as Windows, there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms. Mr. Granneman bluntly says this is wrong, then proceeds to detail the fundamental differences between those OS's and Windows which make Windows an easy and inviting target for virus-writers, as opposed to the Unix-based platforms." [Privacy Digest]
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Opinion: Linux vs. Windows Viruses: "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman." [Privacy Digest] I think this applies as well to Mac OS X vs. Windows (there are no known viruses for Mac OS X to date).
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Nobel honours super-science: "Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony Leggett win the Nobel physics prize for work on superconductors." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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Nokia pushes N-Gage mobile: "Nokia has been talking up the prospects for its mobile gaming phone, the N-Gage, as it goes on sale globally." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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