[X Newbies] Viruses

Florin Alexander Neumann alexn at ica.net
Fri Aug 1 13:56:08 PDT 2003


On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 14:18 Canada/Eastern, Randy B. Singer wrote:

> Actually, there is a (rare) virus that can infect Macs and which spoofs
> addresses.  It is called the Simpsons virus.

The Simpsons is AppleScript, hence Mac-only; it cannot run on PCs (if 
you're a stickler for trivia, it's a worm, rather than a virus). While 
Macs are immune from PC e-mail malware, they're, of course, vulnerable 
to Mac malware.

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