What was missed by virus writers was an excellent opportunity to use Macs as a
delivery system to infect PCs via floppy disk boot sector viruses.
A Mac with PC Exchange will always write to any unlocked DOS formatted floppy
disk to put on folders for Desktop, Trash, resource forks etc.
Nobody with a bent towards causing computer mayhem ever hacked PC Exchange to
pick up whatever was in a PC floppy boot sector then write it to other PC
floppies.
It would've required a Mac virus/trojan to infect PC Exchange, and optionally
give it a PC boot sector virus to write to PC floppies.
I've no idea how difficult doing that would be, but I bet it'd be easy for the
arseholes who have created some extremely clever stealth malware that can even
prevent themselves from being 'caught' in Windows Safe Mode and from being
'interrupted' by pulling the power cord instead of rebooting normally.
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