--- Steve Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Closer to truth is 15,000 for Windows/DOS and
> 700 for Mac. The
> >chance of an effective worm for a Mac would be for
> it to be cross
> >platform. Possible? Likely?
>
> Any that would affect the Mac nowadays (OS X) would
> have to also affect
> Unix/Linux/BSD operating systems to be truly
> affective.
Some a-hole actually went and wrote a cross platform
Linux/Windows virus. It doesn't actually do anything
nasty, just infects stuff. But of course someone
will take the code and create something real bad
based on it. :P
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