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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Most PC viruses require the user to click on something to install it.

To install malware on a Mac requires providing an Administrator name and password, not just "clicking on something" to install it...

15 posted on 05/02/2011 1:16:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Swordmaker
Yep, it sure does. And those users will do it. They will see something that will “optimize” their system, they will click on it, it will ask for their Administrator credentials and they will give it.
20 posted on 05/02/2011 1:35:24 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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