4. If you use a Mac, don't worry about it - it won't affect you.

oh yes you will....good sales pitch...
but that is another story....
maybe it is time that these spammers or whatever you want to call them were taken and dealt with severely...
yes they can track them down it they want to...I quess that is the story they don't want to....

The Fact is most Viruses are written for Window Systems , there are better and free Operating System then any Version of Windows.

I wish Mac users would pull their heads outta their ass' .... but yes .. the majority of virus' are written to infect Windows ...because 90% of the world runs on windows .... Half the Mac programs availible now run on windows and are windows based ... therefore are sepsiptible(sp) to Virus'

However thats a differant topic for a differant day

Back to the topic at hand .... Hello and welcome to 4 years ago ... some keen reporting there Skippy .... This email has been circulating for at least 4 years ... and has gone through the gambit of various carriers ... USPS, Canada Post, DHL, UPS, Purolator, FED Ex ... and those are the ones I can just remember .... Its old and overdone ... I find it funny that funny see the tag line line ... and say Oh Canada post is triing to get hold of me ... but fail to wonder why Canada post has their email addy ... who puts email addys on their post????

I said "Free Operating Systems" Apple and Windows isn't, Pay for a New Version every Year or 2 ?

So Macs are for people who don't know the basic premise of not clicking on links in strange e-mails?

I just glanced at the message above quickly and said to mysel thats MrPG wit, then I went back to confirm, you sir are a real slice.

Macs are very cool toys, but don't try to run a business with them. I tried. For example, I could not find any accounting software that is available for a Mac where you can share the accounting database with more than one user. The most popular accounting software in Canada is Simply Accounting which doens't have a Mac version at all, and Quickbooks which has a Mac version which is missing a bunch of functionalisy including networking.

Accounting....there's no app for that.

And back to the virus thing. bowzone_mikey is absolutely right. If you are going to build a tool to steal information, you target the 90% of computers with a Windows based virus, only 5% of computers out there are running Apple OS. Sure Apple's market share has gone up 20% in the past 5 years, from 4% to 5%.

Exactly. To run anything, they have to be in compatibiity mode... and then what's the point of owning a Mac in the first place?

Macs are great if you know very little about the inner workings of a computer and need to have your hand held through everything.

And then there is the Hallmark e-mail and the TD email, and the HSBC e-mail and the RBC email ....

and if you send them all to spam automatically, or delte them automatically, then a number of other e-mails will get deleted or sent there as well .....

So, like Canada Post's mail system, some mail gets to you and some of you mail gets to others .......

Just remember, unless you gave any of those folks your e-mail, they would not have it .....

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