Re: This lady is an iDiot!

On 2006-03-14 08:50:23 -0800, Wegie <here@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

In article <2006031400522416807-bhelsley@interchangeubcca>,
Benjamin Helsley <bhelsley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2006-03-12 20:52:16 -0800, Wegie <here@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said
please provide a link, be you can't.

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/389

when you find something out in the wild, please let us know, your link is just a clean room example, hardly anything that a mac user is going to run into.

You said:

"earth to ben, there are "no" viruses on OSX, zip, zero, none. so what do you mean: "does not mean they do not exist"? how can they exist if there aren't any? so I see you are wrong as well. and a virus cannot move from machine to machine unless you physically go from machine to machine to install it. thus, no viruses on OSX."

In response to me saying:

"While I have never had a virus on my macintosh, that does not mean that they do not exist, and it certainly doesn't mean the operating system is impervious to being compromised. I'm not sure exactly why you would claim this is incorrect."

I really have no interest in wasting more time beating a dead horse here. My only point is that the Mac operating system, like any useful piece of software, is not perfect and it's not invulnerable. If you appreciate that, you are even less likely to contract malware on your system in any form.

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