Re: OT: Update Virus Checker

rw <rw56_to_the_chase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:UMyDf.3611$5E3.2023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Well, it would "exempt" your computer from infection by this
> particular virus, as well as by any other computer virus that's
> ever existed.

I did not take the original poster's suggestion the we all move to Apple
based purely on this single virus.

My reply was that OS X, whilst a beautiful GUI (I own 2),
has nothing that makes it less prone to socially engineered virii
and malware. Chances are the damage caused would be less due to the
underlying Unix kernel, but I prefer to think of Apple with its 4%
market share as just not worth the trouble for virus makers to
really focus on. You would see no huge outbreak because there simply
aren't enough Macs.

By the way, if you follow the Linux world, also based on
Unix, you'll know that there have been lots of vulnerabilites that
can give root access to a virus. There's at least one rootkit for OS
X that I know of.
.

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