And, if this was done maliciously, is such an act legal (in the US)?< Nance, such an act is very much illegal, in fact it's a federal offence to "Knowingly or willingly send files known to contain malicious, damaging or destructive code." The fine is around $10k and up and loss of computer and a possible prison term. > give people a better choice for an os than winblows< Jaqui, that narrows the field down to Mac OSX and some varient of Linux, both of them are more stable and, at least on the mac side, (no exp with Linux so don't know its security) are much more secure than anything from micro$haft. The words 'Microsoft' and 'Security' cannot be mentioned without 'problems', 'hole', or 'warning' being mentioned somewhere nearby. --- MS Windows: the only commercially succesful virus

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