From: "Michael B. Bellopede"
<Michael(_dot_)CTR(_dot_)Bellopede(_at_)tc(_dot_)faa(_dot_)gov>
Subject: RE: VIRUS WARNING
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:27:14 -0400
It should be pretty obvious that the only reason that viruses are so
prolific on MS platforms, is that so many people are using them....
Hardly.
Compare the apparent security considerations in the design of
Microsoft Outlook and Word (execute pretty much anything with few
limitations on the effects the executing code can have on the hosting
system) with those of Java and the Java virtual machine (provide
a sandbox in which the code executes and provide mechanisms (e.g., the
SecurityManager) that control the effects of the code executing in
the sandbox can have on the broader environment).
It should be pretty obvious that security is a greater design consideration
for some systems than for others.
-tjs