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To: PetiteMericco
I refer you back to my post above #134. If you want to talk about Occams Razor, you might consider the fact that perhaps it is a lot harder to write a successful virus for Linux and/or OSX than it is for MS-Windows. As has been pointed out several times on this thread, there are plenty of potential systems out there to attack, and if it were as easy as it apparently is for MS-Windows, you would find at least one of them out there. The simplest answer to the question is that it is, in fact, much more difficult, which is why we don't see any.
181 posted on 01/03/2006 8:42:56 AM PST by zeugma (Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
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To: zeugma
I refer you back to my post above #134. If you want to talk about Occams Razor, you might consider the fact that perhaps it is a lot harder to write a successful virus for Linux and/or OSX than it is for MS-Windows.

In return, I refer you to any thread relating to Mac computers on Fark.com for the last two weeks, including this one shooting down the silly theory of writing viruses for glory.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1846304

203 posted on 01/07/2006 8:01:11 PM PST by PetiteMericco
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