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Originally posted by 12clicks:
MACs are immune to everything. No good program operator is without at least one in the office.
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Hardly. Not enough people run them to make it worthwhile to creat a virus for it. In fact, it would be easier to trick the user for Macs, since everything is so hush-hush, the OS can't let you know anything that's going on. I guess windows is approaching that, but Macs have been that way since 1984. I've used them enough to know, but I don't use them anymore.
As for the virus writers, they want to see their virus spread more than anything. Even if it's main purpose is destruction, it cannot destroy what it has not spread to, so spreading
is the key issue. And if it stops spreading after 10 machines because no one uses the OS, then it is pointless. (I say cheers to Nimda that it will use Macs to spread even more, even though it cannot infect them - they just become kind of like a carrier.) That's what unix is safe, as well. There will ever be an OS that has no holes to exploit. MS just gets the shit since everything runs it.
Personally, I much prefer unix for my hosting, but I can't stand running a 30-yr old OS for my personal PC, so I run windows. And if it weren't for people like McAfee, I would never get infected anyway...