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Old 04-20-06, 09:14 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by netsyd
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.
As far as I can see the threat is to the data you have on a CD or SF card [X51 can use both] which can't be restored by a hard reset.
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