William H. Magill <magill at mcgillsociety.org> said on 12/2/04, 4:15 pm (-0500 GMT): > By comparison, OSX is inherently secure "out of the box." You > have to open up the ports by enabling things like web service > and file sharing. Thanks for the helpful answer! > One last point -- your "borrowed" machine is pretty typical of > far too many "enterprise" based machines. It was probably not > "up to rev" with the latest Microsoft patches. I think what happened was that when the machine was upgraded to XP, the virus protection software was disabled (temporarily or permanently I don’t know). Pete