Originally Posted by borgyn
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This may sound a tad pedantic, but was it not the case that humans died from avian bird flu and beef importation was banned by some countries because of the fear of humans contracting deadly animal bound diseases?
Though the Desktop PC and the PPC are different beasts, isn't it true that in many cases data is usually synced via a desktop and therefore the antivirus (AVS) on the desktop can be configured to scan data before the transfer to the PPC.
Of course the probability of a PPC being infected is still relatively low compared to a desktop.
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The problem is that the flu they had HAD mutated to a form that could infect a human... and that the virus in question was of the same genus (from what I recall) as most other influenza viruses. It's less of a jump than going from fish to human, given that we share more in common with say, a bird, than with a fish. The problem with mad cow Disease is that it's not virus-borne but that the protein in question can't be digested by humans and that it can cause the normal proteins in an animal or a person to deform to the 'bad' shape which causes the damage to the nervous system.
And while the AV program could scan a PPC for a virus, it'll scan for PC-affecting viruses, rather than PPC-affecting ones, if only because the desktop application'll be considered with supporting one OS, and needs low-level access that ActiveSync connections won't give it, IIRC. It's like claiming a virus on an iPhone could kill the Internet...