[G4] Virus and Mac OS X?

[Jim Manley]

Viruses written for windows computers won't hurt Macs. Make sure your  
firewall is turned on. preferences/sharing/firewall.

OS X can run a virus that was written for Macs on the platform level.
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James Paul Manley
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On Dec 11, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Kristen wrote:

> I recieved an email damon message this morning stating all the  
> messages that
> bounced due to closed mailboxes and do to a virus. So I have to  
> wonder where
> this virus came from? I thought a Mac OS X can't run a virus since  
> it's
> Darwin linux. At least at the core. I know it can't be my Linux box  
> since it
> will not run a virus at all. That leaves the Windows XP my son  
> uses, but the
> emails are returned at my email addy.
>
> So let me ask, Will the Mac OS X (Tiger) run a virus and  
> automatically run the
> email program? BTW, the Mac was in sleep mode. I don't believe it's  
> the Mac.