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Old 04-14-06, 12:17 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Again ... and it's been discussed again and again ... Viruses at this point are not a real problem because --- You can HARD RESET! Until someone comes up with a virus that is capable of destryoing the flashrom on the device and therefore making the system 100% utterly useless, the threat is easily handled. Naturally we are all concerned because of the threat against a regular PC, but once you come to terms with the fact that this isn't Windows... it gets easier to understand.

By nature the way that PPC's are built (embedded OS) the threat of viruses are pretty well mitigated by the hard reset factor. Granted you may need to restore PIM data and reinstall your applications (unless you have a backup like Sprite or Spb) but for the most part there is not threat.

Spend the money on a good backup software... you run a better chance of having to hard reset at a bad time than you do of having a virus problem.

IMHO. :)
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