[Ti] Off_Topic: Are there OSX viruses?

[cheshirekat]

On Thu, May 20, 2004, the following words from David DelMonte
ddelmonte at mac.com, emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...

>Despite my questions on this yesterday, as a Mac User since 1986, I 
>don't believe I have ever had a virus. 

I've been a Mac user since 1993 and have also never encountered a virus
on any of my Macs. I know many pc users who have gotten viruses as little
as 2 weeks ago. One of the problems I am seeing is that many newbie and
unskilled pc users do not want to buy anti-viral software - they feel the
platform is the majority, therefore should be built-in. But they don't
mind using freeware antivirus software that has proven totally useless.

Another thing, as much as I try to give advice to the contrary, they love
to send mass emails to everyone in their address book of every story,
tidbit, joke and basically junk without considerate use of BCC. It really
ires me that a lot of people get sent my email address when I can't trust
that they use antivirus software to prevent my email address being
harvested for spam and worms.

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