[X Newbies] Apple and all of these viruses?

[Steven Rogers]

On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Eugene Lee wrote:

> : That article focuses on the ability to *write* a virus for the Mac.
>
> I respectfully disagree.  :-)
>
> The article strongly suggests, without actually stating, that OS X is 
> more vulnerable to possible viruses because there are more programming 
> languages available on OS X to exploit the system: AppleScript, 
> several shells, Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, etc.   Of course the only way 
> to take advantage of any of these languages is to trick the user into 
> executing some malicious bit of code. . . .

that's exactly what I mean by focusing on writing it, rather than 
distributing it.

And why I said, you can *write* a virus for any computer - the whole 
issue is distributing it, so focusing on the languages, and with a wave 
of the hand saying "all you have to do is trick the users into running 
it" dismisses the whole crux of the issue.

SR