September 20, 2001
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My friend Sean, who happens to do all that convoluted corporate IS stuff for a living, had this to say regarding yesterday’s anti-Windows post:
“In the PC world, the real culprit and troublemaker is Outlook. I have been using the Eudora client for years and have watched the email-bourne viri [sic] cause havoc everywhere else but my machine. I have run a stable copy of Win98 and have now upgraded to Win2000, happily humming along with Eudora 4.0. In the past year my relatives call me in a panic when a virus hits them, and my pat solution to solve their woes is to switch them over to Eudora, install some anti-virus software and train them not to open any attachments.”
As someone who has kept using Claris Emailer through several corporate email system mandates (Microsoft Mail/cc:mail/Outlook), I commend Sean on his wherewithal to happily hum along in the face of imminent disaster. However, although the problem is directly linked to Outlook rather than Windows per se, it’s ultimately an issue with the platform — not just the specific software running on that platform. None of these viruses execute or propagate with the same ferocity when using Outlook on a Mac. They can do massive damage only when you’re running Windows. Thus I stand by my initial recommendation: Do not use Windows.
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