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To: Swordmaker

Having just suffered a fatal virus crash on my PC, I am loathe to wish ill on anybody.

But it sure would be schadenfreude to see a “Wipe the smug grin off your face” virus shake up the Mac community.

Just sayin’.


4 posted on 12/17/2010 1:19:57 PM PST by Maceman (Obama -- he's as American as nasi goreng)
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To: Maceman
But it sure would be schadenfreude to see a “Wipe the smug grin off your face” virus shake up the Mac community.

We are still waiting for the first viable OSX virus to be seen in the wild. Counting OSX Server, which was released in Early 1999, we are going on 12 years and counting without one single self-replicating, self-installing, self-transmitting, self-starting malware in the wild for OSX!

There have been some candidates seen in the labs but they all failed. In those twelve years we've picked up a total of 17 known Trojan horse programs in four distinct families, all of which OSX itself will warn you about on attempted download, attempted install, or at attempted first run. It takes a particularly clueless user to ignore all those warnings to proceed with the installation of a malicious Trojan. About the ONLY time a Mac user would be at risk would be a careless user downloading from an untrusted site on the day a zero day NEW FAMILY TROJAN came out that would not yet be in OSX's database... But then, being a zero-day, it most likely would NOT be in any other anti-virus vendor's database either.

8 posted on 12/17/2010 2:16:09 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Maceman
But it sure would be schadenfreude to see a “Wipe the smug grin off your face” virus shake up the Mac community.

I'd rather see MSFT put out a really great program and end its dream of creating an eternal monopoly.

10 posted on 12/17/2010 3:35:44 PM PST by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: Maceman
But it sure would be schadenfreude to see a “Wipe the smug grin off your face” virus shake up the Mac community.

And we're supposed to believe that there aren't L33T HaX0Rz who feel the same way? That alone makes "security through obscurity" implausible.

12 posted on 12/17/2010 10:59:37 PM PST by ReignOfError
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