[P1] Please help to stop the conversion to "Windoze".......

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

At 12:00 -0500 05/11/03, Jack Rodgers wrote:
>The last windows virus cost the world $9 Billion dollars. So how 
>does that Mac windows cheaper than a Mac?

Jack, I presume you meant "make" instead of the first "Mac"?

Local Windows techs charge $50 an hour (a couple have initial $75 
troubleshooting fees) to repair PCs which are infected with a virus. 
A couple/three guys in our group who don't bother with regular Norton 
updates have had to take their machines into the shop repeatedly. One 
finally gave up and bought a new machine. Not counting the 
frustration they feel having their machines unusable and the downtime 
while their computers are in the shop, they have to shell out a lot 
of bucks whereas us Mac folk just keep clicking away.

Speaking of the costs of viruses, I hear those estimates of viruses 
costing "us" $6 billion, 9 billion, 20 billion, etc. on CNN every 
time a virus/worm/Trojan bites a large number. Where do they ever get 
those figures? Except for server slowdowns and occasional outages due 
to excessive mail generated by viruses, I don't see the effects here 
at home due to any infections. It certainly doesn't cost me any money.
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