-=> HOLGER GRANHOLM wrote to KURT WISMER <=-

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 KW>ah well, if only that were true... both os2 and mac osx have
 KW>documented instances of malware...

 HG> Maybe but I have not read about virus- or malware attacks on OS/2.

not recently, no... in fact, not in many, many years... even at the
height of it's popularity there was very little malware ever written for
it...

 KW>now, eCS i'm unfamiliar with - it may in fact not have any
 KW>documented instances of malware yet... if it's a general purpose
 KW>computing platform of any kind then it's certainly capable of
 KW>supporting malware in general and viruses in particular, but less
 KW>popular platforms get less attention from the bad guys...

 HG> eCS (eCommStation) is created on the OS/2 basis since IBM ceased to
 HG> update and finally to support its own creation. eCS has been available
 HG> from Holland the past 2-3 years but they don't propagate it to other
 HG> markets even though it supports a lot of languages like IBM's OS/2.

 HG> BTW, it is available from: http://shop.mensys.nl

ah, eComStation, i was able to find info on that and there's a fairly
informative wikipedia entry at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ecomstation...

from that description eCS is not immune to malware in general or viruses
in particular... it's probably just not being targeted... the concensus
these days is that the bad guys are motivated by money and i don't
expect there's much money to be made by developing malware for that
platform...
 
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