Is There a Virus Threat for Macs?

The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 11, 2006 | Walter S. Mossberg

[Echo Talon]

I have never had problems with viruses, only Mactards that think they are safe are the one who have problems.

BTW, reason why it hasn't been ported to the mac is because it would run on over 90% of them.

[Echo Talon]

You were aware that Microsoft used the Mac to develop their game system and write many of the games?

I dont care about MS, I'm suing Linux right now.

[Echo Talon]

using*

[Echo Talon]

forgot to add the os..

[Echo Talon]

It may come as a shock to you that there are people out there who use their computers to PRODUCE something.

LOL! And what can an Apple produce that a PC cant? sheesh. PC's can do everything and play games too.

[MadIvan]

The only OS I'm actually enamoured with is Linux, and in particular the Ubuntu variant.

Regards, Ivan

[Echo Talon]

Im using Mepis 6 it has some of the Ubuntu inside. :)

[Echo Talon]

Distrowatch.com has this if your interested "Distribution Release: SUSE Linux 10.1"

[MadIvan]

What I find amazing is that I use Linux on my oldest computer - yet thanks to Linux it runs faster than the others (they are on Windows XP). This 2 1/2 year old laptop is even faster than my mother's 15in Powerbook on OS X.

I am waiting for more of my games to run on Crossover Office or Wine, and then I'll move all my computers over to Ubuntu.

Regards, Ivan

[Echo Talon]

Linux really needs adobe to port photoshop to linux. Gimp sucks hardcore and running photoshop through wine stinks. "Pixel Image Editor" here has promise, but its a one man show and he needs a team to support him. Also its not free, but thats ok... $32 for a photoshop clone... that can be used on multiple platforms... not bad...

[MadIvan]

That's really all I need - I've thought about trying to use Macromedia Fireworks through Wine or Crossover Office, but what I've seen so far doesn't suggest it's a viable prospect.

Regards, Ivan

[Swordmaker]

And what can an Apple produce that a PC cant? sheesh. PC's can do everything and play games too.

Run OS X legally.

[Echo Talon]

Apple can run OS X who cares.

[Echo Talon]

by my calculations you are being charged $1,918 for processor and Motherboard, and "tech support"... sheesh.

[Echo Talon]

If OS X is so great why does the fastest super computer on the planet run Linux? here

[Yo-Yo]

Right.

Destructive OS X malware spies on Apple users

Macs' Virus Profile Rising

Apple releases Security Update, QuickTime 7.1, Front Row

Macs are more secure because they are so few and far between on the net. Same reason Firefox is so "secure", because it is (or was) so obscure. That is changing now and there have been security patches for Firefox as well.

[ShadowAce]

Show us your score

OK, I ran it on my linux laptop. What is it supposed to tell me? I got a time and a checksum, and all it tells me is that the checksum was validated.

[Echo Talon]

what time do you get? LOL

[ShadowAce]

Well, for the 512K, I got 22.454 secs. How's that rank?

[Echo Talon]

really? Wow that pretty slow