Does this mean Mac will soon find themselves attacked by viruses?
Always thought it suspicious that PC’s were the main target
of viruses. I don’t know... ya think perhaps MAC/Apple
generated them?
...just sayin’.
Originally it was the Mac that was the virus target of choice. Apple had invested heavily in populating the higher education market with Macs. Sooo, with lots of Macs kicking around, and lots of geeks with time on their hands it was inevitable.
As the market shifted to WinTel so did the virus authors.
Now, between the small target and the unix-based OSX it's just too much of a bother to write a virus for a Mac.
Hi Jo..., don’t think I’ve seen you in a Macintosh thread before... :-)
But, you were saying — “Does this mean Mac will soon find themselves attacked by viruses?”
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Well, I think that some of those nasty virus (and worm and trojan) writers have been trying, but they haven’t had any real success to speak of (I mean one or two, here and there, and even then, hardly worth mentioning...).
Compare that to the thousands upon thousands upon thousands for the PC/Windows platform and that’s a *real nightmare* there...
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And then you said — Always thought it suspicious that PC’s were the main target of viruses. I don’t know... ya think perhaps MAC/Apple generated them?
One could take that one of two ways... either “Apple” (the company) did that, or “Apple users” did it. Well, from my way of thinking, neither one of those two seem really viable. Companies, themselves, are not in the business of creating viruses. The penalty and backlash would be too steep for them to try it. However, companies have created software that some have claimed acts like a virus... LOL... (one might wonder about Microsoft, itself in that regard, or Sony in their efforts to protect their music [which they backed out of...] and a few other odds and ends of companies having some foolish ideas about marketing and/or foolish things to do). But as far as maliciously doing something like that from a company standpoint, just doesn’t make too much sense.
As far as the “users” themselves are concerned (i.e., software writers and coders/hackers), the Macintosh users could care less what happens with the Windows/PC platform, as far as creating problems for them (in the way of viruses), because they seem to be doing “good enough” all by themselves, without anyone going out of their way to create problems for that platform... LOL...
So, these malicious hackers are creating all these problems for the PC/Windows platform, basically because it’s “easy pickens’ “ and the Macintosh platform is very much more difficult to compromise. Some say it’s not difficult to compromise a Macintosh computer, but aside from all that “bluster” you hear from those who say that — they haven’t been able to “show it happening” yet — to this date (and we’re talking about almost a decade of the Mac OS X operating system). *In real life practice* the Macintosh platform is the safest one out there — no doubt about it