"Rob" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:

Rob wrote:
Or get a Mac and never worry about a virus again ;-)


NOT true.

Actually, it is. There is not a single, not one, virus listed for MacOS
X on the securityfocus sight, http://securityfocus.com/. There were a
few for the older versions but none have been written, or at the very
least released, that affect MacOS X. That's not to say the Mac is
invulnerable, there are denial of service attacks that can be waged
against any computer connected to a network and buffer overflows which
allow a cracker to take ownership of your machine. Thankfully, active
attacks like that are fairly rare against indiviuals. On the virus front
though, none have been reported for the Mac in the past two years.

There's a reason some of the more professional security experts use them:

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin...item.pl?id=215
--
Rob

The use of Mac's is so small that is not worth writing a virus for. Linux
and Unix will be big targets soon. As more use, more attention.
Bill

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:40:36 GMT, Rob wrote:

Or get a Mac and never worry about a virus again ;-)

I guess most people have decided microsoft with a virus is better than
a mac without.

bb