In article ,
Mark Anderson wrote:

Don't bother changing providers, they aren't the problem. You are only
one of thousands if not millions of people who got infected using Outlook
and it's not your fault. Many people just get computers and use whatever
is installed on them to use the Internet. That's certainly
understandable; you shouldn't have to be a computer geek to use the
Internet.


Gimme an "L"
Gimme an "I"
Gimme a "N"
Gimme a "U"
Gimme an "X"

Whassat spell?

No viruses.
Free.
Easy.

Remember, all of this is a *design feature,* not a bug.



This virus has hit everyone and it's severe.

Well, no. Not a single Linux, or BSD user I know has
been affected by the virus other than to have received
some easily-filtered spam. No doubt there are some
folk using Windoze emulators who have been hit, but
nobody using a Unix variant alone. Mac OS X is also
immune.

And this is only the beginning. Remember that when
you accepted the XP license, you gave Microsoft the
right to inspect *and modify* **any** file on
your computer at any time. Microsoft has plans
for this.

For a look at the future for MS users, see:

http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath

There's a reason that the NSA, DoD, etc. are slowly
switching to Linux/BSD.

See:

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/

and

http://tinyurl.com/etoi


billo