[Ti] (OT) virus reports sent back to me by PC users

Renaud Dreyer rdreyer at math.berkeley.edu
Wed Jun 16 11:02:59 PDT 2004


Le mercredi, 16 juin 2004, à 10:58 US/Pacific, Wilhelm Wanders a écrit :

> - 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 ^_^
>

Those 2 points also apply to Linux, but do you know of many Linux 
viruses? Ciao,

              Renaud Dreyer

> 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?
>
>
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