Are Macintoshes affected by the Nimda virus?

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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01092016473811

Thought some people may be interested in this.

I can quote the whole thing, it's pretty small:

"Are Macintoshes affected by the Nimda virus?

Situation:
You heard that there is a new worm/virus threat that goes by any of the following names:

WW32/Nimda@mm
PE_NIMDA.A
I-Worm.Nimda
W32/Nimda-A
Win32.Nimda.A

You wonder if there is any hazard of this worm/virus infecting your Macintosh.

Solution:
This is a Windows specific worm/virus and cannot infect a Macintosh. Since this is a worm/virus that can be email based, a Macintosh user could pass on the worm/virus through the infected email, by forwarding it to a Windows user.

NOTE: If your Macintosh has a shared network drive that can be accessed by a PC that is infected with Nimda, that drive can be filled with infected files, leaving you with less available space on the shared drive. To protect your Macintosh systems, you may want to disconnect any shared network drives until you are sure that your network is no longer infected with the Nimda worm/virus.

For more information about Nimda, please go to:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

[12clicks]

MACs are immune to everything. No good program operator is without at least one in the office.

[Ludedude]

MACs are immune to everything

Lets see what happens now that OS-X is vulnerable to the same things that can take down UNIX.

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ppl don't bother writing viruses for machines that hardly anyone uses. the most popular systems are always the most threatened.

Macs are viri by themselves

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What's a Mac?

[Gemini]

The neighbors anchors his fishing boat with something named Mac... funny colored thing that looks like those old picture viewers we had as kids only larger.

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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.

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...

[Freeway]

Just to clear up any confussion anyone might have. Mac is now running on a Unix core. ie: Macs are now Unix. After 12 some odd years Macs new OS was re-written from the ground up. Open Sourse, Protected Memory, etc. Modern tecnoligies bulit in at a system level.
Anyway... http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/