[goldstategop]

There is no virus written for Unix. Its obvious since to get a program installed, you need to log on as a superuser in Linux/Mac OS X. I still don't have an antivirus program on either my Linux laptop or Mac Mini since there doesn't appear to be any instance of a successful Unix virus in the wild. I think this is a hoax.

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[IncPen]

Boo!

[Element187]

Yes i never seen a virus on a unix or linux box, but i wouldnt be doubting someone out there is trying to exploit one of the thousands of security vulnerabilities on MAC OSX.... OSX might be based on BSD, but soon as steve jobs adds all those pretty bells and whistles to the operating system and complicates and bloats the code, there is bound to be some serious security flaws.

[zeugma]

Its obvious since to get a program installed, you need to log on as a superuser in Linux/Mac OS X.

This isn't completely true. Any user can install a program in, say, his home directory. You only have to have 'root' privs if you are installing to a directory that users don't have permission to write to.

Any program installed in a user's directory will execute with the same priviledges as a user though, so while it can harm any user data writable by the user, it can't touch system files (i.e., config files in /etc)