[Ti] (OT) virus reports sent back to me by PC users

[kalirhe at umdnj.edu]

Good point, Renaud.

That Macs are NOT "immune" from Viruses (when written specifically for the
Mac OS) - is a no-brainer.

It's anybody's guess as to whether or not hackers have NOW decided that it's
time to "move up to Mac-virus writing". Is it our "wishful-thinking" that
perhaps a virus increase would bring an increased market share?

That there's a future surge of Mac viruses looming in the horizon - remains
to be seen.

Best,

Henry

Quoting Renaud Dreyer <rdreyer at math.berkeley.edu>:

> 
> Le mercredi, 16 juin 2004, à 10:58 US/Pacific, Wilhelm Wanders a écrit :
> 
> > - because it is now unix based and more people can write scripts and 
> > programs for the system
> > - because it gains in popularity and thereby the 'success' rate of a 
> > programer is higher
> > and maybe because it is too easy to infect wintel machines, that mac 
> > os would be a challenge ^_^
> >
> 
> Those 2 points also apply to Linux, but do you know of many Linux 
> viruses? Ciao,
> 
>               Renaud Dreyer
> 
> > On Jun 16, 2004, at 1:19 PM, kalirhe at umdnj.edu wrote:
> >
> >> Why would virus-writers be more motivated now to write viruses
> >> capable of infecting the Mac?
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