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To: PAR35
Story can’t be true. I remember Apple Fanbois telling us that Apples don’t get viruses or malware - that’s limited to M$ machines.

How many times are you going to repeat your lie? I certainly have not stated that. . . we’ve often stated that users can be inveigled into installing malicious programs which are called Trojans, that contain malware on Macs. It is however true that there are ZERO true self-installing, self-transmitting, and self-starting computer viruses for the Mac OSX or later platform. None. I.e., there are no true computer viruses or worms for Mac OS X or later, and that has been true now for twenty-two years.

As for Trojans, there are now fewer than 300 known Trojans in only nine distinct families for the Mac, all of which the factory installed OS will identify and block from being downloaded, installed, or run for the first time unless the user is industrially strength stupid enough to ignore the system alerts and continually gives administrator level name and password three time at each time to bypass the warnings they are installing malicious software, or they’ve idiotically turned the system off. But, some are that stupid.

18 posted on 01/31/2019 11:15:25 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker
How many times are you going to repeat your lie?

If I made it up, I must be the greatest marketer in the country. Google - Macs don't get viruses - and see how many pages have been devoted to refuting that proposition.

In modesty, I must say that I didn't make it up the proposition, the Apple Fanbois did.

22 posted on 02/01/2019 7:52:40 AM PST by PAR35
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