on 1/5/06 8:05 PM, chris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> since there are no proven >> viruses that hurt Macs. > > minor correction... that hurt OS X (and a minor correction on that, there > is at least one trojan horse concept out there for OS X, but no evidence > that it was ever released to the wild). > > The amazing thing is, anti virus software is still on the market and > selling for OS X. Talk about selling snake oil! I'm sure, given time, > there will be real viruses on OS X, but unless Apple gets its market > share way up, most of the people that want to do damage or stroke their > egos aren't going to target the mac (which means most of the virus > writers out there aren't going to target the Mac) > > OS 9 and prior have plenty of viruses available, although the word plenty > needs to be taken as literal and not relative to Windows. By plenty I > mean enough that anti virus software at least had a point for those that > were paranoid so it could stop the 30 or 40 depending on the OS > version... relative speaking to Windows, OS 9 and prior should be > considered "virus free"... at least by the standards that the FDA uses to > determine if something is "fat free" > > :-) > > -chris > <http://www.mythtech.net> >
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