Re: 2 critical vulns and the clock isticking..[Fwd:[EEYEB-2000801]]

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> However, I do believe that there is a lot of practical reason to run
> just anything besides Windows, if you want to miss a lot of the
> volume of attacks.

If that's what you're after you don't even need to abandon Windows.  I
know someone who until recently was running Windows 3.1, and as a
result was about as vulnerable to malware in practice as I, running
NetBSD/sparc, am - none of the even vaguely widespread malware runs on
3.1.

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