[X Newbies] Apple and all of these viruses?

Florin Alexander Neumann alexn at ica.net
Sat Aug 23 22:08:13 PDT 2003


On Saturday, Aug 23, 2003, at 22:44 Canada/Eastern, Steven Rogers wrote:

> My point in answering it was to refute a common yet false explanation 
> of why Macs don't have as many virus "titles" as Windows - 
> specifically for Newbies, so they'll know a) not to say that "the lack 
> of Mac viruses proves that the Mac is more secure and b) that "the Mac 
> is too unimportant to write viruses for" doesn't prove that the Mac is 
> equally vulnerable to viruses as a PC.

Steven, you appear to be in too much of a hurry to read the posts -- 
no-one, so far, has claimed (b) on this list. But it's good of you to 
take the trouble to refute what hasn't been said.

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