[Bush2000]

Most Mac users never need Root access. We use Administrator privileges, and if Root is needed for installation of an application or for alterations to the system -- what a virus would need to do -- a user must enter a password. This physically and consciously acknowledges an event (and its consequences).

Apparently, this guy isn't aware that a virus can do plenty of damage in your ~/ folder. Documents? What documents?!? Poof! Gone... or transmitted to some waiting FTP site...

[Swordmaker]

Apparently, this guy isn't aware that a virus can do plenty of damage in your ~/ folder. Documents? What documents?!? Poof! Gone... or transmitted to some waiting FTP site...

Virus? Which virus is that Bush? How did it get there, Bush? What self-propagating vector are you proposing?