[X Newbies] Apple and all of these viruses?

[Steven Rogers]

On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 06:50 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
> You said:
>
>> ...one good virus should be able to cripple a substantial portion of 
>> Mac users. And given the way the press likes to pounce on any Apple 
>> foible, that would certainly be huge headlines.

The part of the sentence you cut off was "If the Mac were as good for 
viruses as the PC" - which is the whole issue.

> By all accounts, the Simpsons virus was a "good virus".

No it wasn't, because it wasn't widespread.  That's the whole point.

> Yet it still wasn't able to "cripple a substantial portion of Mac 
> users."  And it garnered practically no headlines at all.

Well, no kidding.

SR