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To: Swordmaker

See! Even virus-writers don’t support Macs!


5 posted on 02/01/2009 11:51:30 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

It’s not for lack of trying.

And the whole “there’s not enough Macs for them to go after” argument doesn’t work when people are writing viruses for cell phone operating systems with less than 200,000 possible victims. There are millions of Macs running OS X today.

As of yet, no successful OS X virus has ever been found in the wild. (Social engineering exploits do not count against ANY platform IMHO as the only OS that they need to succeed is the several million year old one between people’s ears.)


6 posted on 02/01/2009 11:55:11 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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