[X Newbies] Apple and all of these viruses?

[Eugene Lee]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:11:47AM -0700, Randy B. Singer wrote:
: 
: Chris Walker said:
: 
: >but take a look at this: 
: ...
: >I have seen another post (which I can't find again) where the writer (who
: >claims to be a very experienced Unix programmer) is saying the same -
: >that these things are at best very difficult and if produced are unlikely
: >to cause major damage due to the Unix system architecture. 
: 
: Thank you for the interesting citation. But have a look at:
: 
: http://www.bynkii.com/generic_mac_stuff/archives/000091.html

There are number of hurdles in OS X that make life much more difficult
for virus writers.  Some of these hurdles are mentioned in the comments.
Perhaps they could fool the novice user to execute some trojan horse,
but the damage would be limited to only that user; OS X itself would
still be unaffected.


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Eugene Lee
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