Re: XP vs Mac OS X

In <slrnd6cms3.faa.The-Central-Scrutinizer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on
04/20/05
at 08:39 AM, TCS <The-Central-Scrutinizer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >>>
>>> No it doesn't because there aren't any OSX viruses (there haven't been
>>> any viruses on any Mac OS for many many years).
>>>
>>>

>>This used to be true. Not anymore.

>Can you name a few running around in the wild? Right now there are
>hundreds of particularly nasty windows viruses in the wild. Can you even
>name one mac virus running around in the wild?

They are not running around in the wild, because they are basically unable
to take over the MAC, and move themselves around the planet via the net.
That is why there may be MAC viruses, but the damage is minimal, and
hardly makes the news. One windows virus can infect millions of PCs. One
MAC virus is hard pressed to get anyone to notice it beyond the individual
user.

As has been beaten to death already, that is why windows is such a mark
for hackers. Its easy to make windows do all the work for you.

I have used OS/2 for over a dozen years. Never had one virus. A) most
folks won't bother with it because it is not mainstream, and B) its damn
hard to write a virus that will do anything more than muck up on computer.
Hard to get famous when your virus gets in one machine and dies right
there of loneliness....

P.S. A google search is not the best method of verifying stuff, as after
the first 100 hits of almost any subject, the rest are usually quite
obscure, and unrelated to the intent of the search.

JB



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