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To: Pontiac

But I thought Macs never got malware or viruses. :P


21 posted on 12/26/2022 11:29:31 AM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: OrangeHoof
But I thought Macs never got malware or viruses. :P

The irony is that in the late '80s through early '90s there were FAR more Mac Viruses than PC viruses, mainly because Mac users shared floppies more (pre-web), and because of the ease of writing Mac viruses. Many of them were minor WDEF, if I recall, could be defeated by rebuilding the desktop. nVir was a bit worse. Can't forget the numerous Word Macro viruses. Macs were very popular on college campuses then, so spread happened through sneaker net (I personally kept the server clean).

Virex (regular updates through mailed flopplies) and PC-cillin (best free solution) were part of my life in those days.
25 posted on 12/26/2022 11:42:38 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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