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On Tuesday, June 28, 2005, at 11:44 AM, ken ross wrote:
i'm a moderator on a mac list elsewhere & i posed the question a while
back
~" has anyone actually seen a real poke-it-with-a-stick mac virus ?",
out of the 450+ people on list ,
1 answer ~ a chap saw one in 1984 which didn't cause him any
problems .
FWIW, I was infected with the WDEF virus on a Mac Plus running 6.0.8
around 1989. I got it on a disk that the "nice" people at an Egghead
Software store gave me filled with shareware and freeware for my new
Plus.
The "vulnerability" that it attacked (sorry, I do not remember what it
did--Bruce, are you reading this?) was fixed with the release of System
7.
Other than that, I have had no problems running my Macs completely
unprotected. I even play around with visiting some of the Phishing
sites just to enter dummy info to see what they do. God help the person
who uses Trickydicky as a login with a password of checkers.
I have yet to have a problem with a modern system running either Wamcom
on 9 or the latest nightly Mozilla build on 10.2 or .3
Len
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