Reply to post: "But look at the number of anti-virus suites we had to have in those days? Next to none. "

"But look at the number of anti-virus suites we had to have in those days? Next to none. "

How old are you? Antivirus software was already a big business in the DOS days - even if very few PC were connected to larger networks, and thereby nobody knew what a "firewall" was. Most infections were through infected executables and diskettes.