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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: spinning beach ball of death
Date: 3 Sep 2015 04:04:27 GMT
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On 2015-09-03, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <d4putjFrrc5U3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> >> nearly all windows users use anti-malware, so even if you did pass
>> >> something along, it will be blocked.
>> >
>> > Assuming the AV software the recipient is using recognizes/catches the 
>> > infection.  Since none of them are perfect...    :-)
>> 
>> You are assuming *your* *Mac*-based anti-virus software detects Windows
>> malware, sure. How silly.
>
> some do, but not all that effectively because there's no need. it's a
> checklist item. 

Indeed, and that's my point.

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