February 24th, 2004
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Thanks Stief. Quote: Originally posted by stief
Peerless--I couldn't find the fairly recent post on slashdot that repeated the claim that there were "no, none, zip, nada" viruses written for OSX, 60-some for OS 9 and Linux each, but I did manage to find a repeat of the usual "Nyeah nyeah OSX has no viruses" kind of discussion on http://www.undergroundmac.com/forums...pic=2420&st=20 , where one poster claimed to have found a couple. That was interesting, since the only other one I'd heard about was at http://macbuyersguide.com/solutions/security/ ., contained in a 30.5 KB file called "DVD studio pro 2 [k].sit." I have tried to search for it several times on LimeWire with no 'luck'--maybe Poisoned can be more successful. | I don't like the "Nyah Nyah..." stupidity either but on the other hand I don't like PC users making out we have the problem too, when we don't! Gives them some false consolation I guess.
As you can see by my reference even the vendors of Anti-Virus s'ware concede that. Yes we can get M$ macro viruses, but there is a simple way to avoid those.
btw "Why aren't there as many programs for the Mac as the PC? A Because we don't count viruses" s:-) Quote: | rubaiyat, go to http://magnetdb.ath.cx/viewtopic.php?t=16 and download my magnet (it's just a 2MB .jpg). Let me know what kind of speeds you get and maybe we can get some decent info on what the problem is. | I'll keep trying but on this attempt it said "Need more sources" and nothing DLed.
Whilst I was in LW I checked the ULs and they are going at a healthy and steady 5 files @ 1-2k ea (I am still running both Poisoned and acqlite).  |
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