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To: driftdiver

It does when you consider there aren't many, if any, viruses for OS X. The thing's been out for, what, six years? You'd think by now someone would've written a few just for the sake of saying it's possible.


13 posted on 01/07/2007 7:16:22 PM PST by Terpfen ("Conservatives" who sat at home cost us the War on Terror, SCOTUS, and economic success.)
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To: Terpfen

"It does when you consider there aren't many, if any, viruses for OS X. The thing's been out for, what, six years?"

There aren't many viruses out there for unix based OS's of which Apple is one. And yes its been out for a while and still have a small fraction the number of users that Microsoft XP has.

"You'd think by now someone would've written a few just for the sake of saying it's possible."

They are out there, just not enough apple users to have them actually spread.


14 posted on 01/07/2007 7:20:03 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: Terpfen
It does when you consider there aren't many, if any, viruses for OS X. The thing's been out for, what, six years? You'd think by now someone would've written a few just for the sake of saying it's possible.

OS/X is a varient of Unix. And Unix has been banged at by college hackers since the 70's.

26 posted on 01/07/2007 7:47:50 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
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