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from: FROMTHERAFTERS
date: 2016-03-09 23:59:00
subject: Re: AV industry doing pat

Virus Guy laid this down on his screen :
> FromTheRafters wrote:
>  
>> Everybody knows (or should) that viruses don't care at all what OS
>> is being used - all general purpose computers are at risk.
>
> Viruses (or exploits of one sort or another) don't have the capacity to
> care.

True enough.

> What they do have is the capacity to leverage vulnerabilities in remote
> systems.

Viruses don't need vulnerabilities beyond the inherent ones in GP 
computers.

>> all general purpose computers are at risk.
>
> There can be no risk if there are no vulnerabilities.

.... and there can be no "no vulnerabilities" in GP computers.
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)

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