Re: help me understand how a Mac is virtually immune to viruses?
- From: "David Nakamoto" <res07oeg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:29:57 GMT
I know other's have given a more technical (i.e., computer) explanation. I'd
like to give it as an analogy.
It's like real viruses, the kind that are causing the bird flu concerns.
Viruses, with few exceptions, are very specific to the types of organisms that
they can infect. In the case of Macs verses PCs, think of Macs as plants and
PCs as animals. So different from one another that a parasite, be it worm or
virus, that can infect one is not going to be able to infect the other because
they're so different. The hardware is similar and corresponds to amino acids
and such, but the software is the DNA code, and that's too different for the
parasite to figure out.
Not 100% correct, but as with all analogies close enough to give a general
picture.
Sincerely,
--- Dave
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"Beryl Gormley" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> After my initial question about a computer switch to Mac, I got to thinking
> about some of my colleagues at work mentioning that a Mac is virtually
> immune to Win viruses. I know this may be elementary (my dear Watson), but
> how is this so? Wouldn't the Mac be using the same programs for Win surfing
> (Firefox, for example) and be receiving the same spyware and other crap
> downloaded in the system as on the Win environment?
>
> thanks,
> Beryl
>
>
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