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

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Spyware is another negative.

I recently spent 4 hours getting the spyware off a Windoze (Win 2000) 
computer in my wife's office. The spyware had filled the desktop with 
shortcuts to porn, gambling, and teen sex sites. This vicious 
software even blocked the download of the programs designed to delete 
it. I had to download from another machine, put it on a disk and load 
it on the infected machine.

I don't think there's much spyware for Macs.

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>I would think that the virus problem to which Windows machines are 
>both susceptible and targeted would be a major factor in a final 
>decision. With the general proliferation of viruses pervading the 
>internet, a network (especially in a school) IS going to contract 
>whatever the worm-de-jour might be; it only takes one machine which 
>has not had it's weekly Norton update to infect the lot. The costs 
>for removal of the virus, repair to both software and hardware, and 
>anti-virus subscriptions, not to mention the downtime of the 
>machines/network would more than make up for any difference in cost 
>between Macs and PCs.
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