- because it is now unix based and more people can write scripts and programs for the system - because it gains in popularity and thereby the 'success' rate of a programer is higher and maybe because it is too easy to infect wintel machines, that mac os would be a challenge ^_^ On Jun 16, 2004, at 1:19 PM, kalirhe at umdnj.edu wrote: > Why would virus-writers be more motivated now to write viruses > capable of infecting the Mac?