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And it frees users from the worry and expense of battling viruses and spyware, because there has never been a successful virus targeting the Mac operating system, and there is little or no spyware for the Mac.

Perhaps that might be true of the current Mac OS, but it should be noted that under older versions of Mac OS in the 1990's, Macintosh viruses became common long before many people were using Windows 3.1 much less 95. To be sure, the Internet wasn't a threat back then (it didn't even exist as far as many people were concerned), and one can't be blamed for failing to include security features into a floppy-based OS that ran in 128K of RAM.

152 posted on 01/17/2005 7:09:25 PM PST by supercat (To call the Constitution a 'living document' is to call a moth-infested overcoat a 'living garment'.)

My Mac got the "WDEF" virus from a floppy disk about 15 years ago. I have not seen a Mac virus since then.

There was a QuickTime-based "Autostart" worm going around in 1998, but I never knew anyone affected by it.

As a service to Windows users, I'm running ClamAV to intercept inbound email viruses on my Linux servers. It's working great.