[Ti] Off_Topic: Are there OSX viruses?

[Wilhelm Wanders]

hi =)

i am no expert - but pretty much a computer nerd since over a decade 
....
since i am very active on the net in all areas that you can think of 
(legal + the other thingy) i get lots of spam every day (which is all 
nicely filtered by mail.app and junkmailcentral) anyways, i also get 
viruses, approx. 3-5 every week. but those are NOT written for 
macintosh or unix, but for windoze ....
in the last 5 years that i have a mac i haven't actually seen one 
macintosh attacking virus, worm or whatever is out there. i know that 
there are some, but compared to the amount of windoze viruses it is 
nothing, really.
i could be wrong though - i can only speak for my experience .......
interesting to hea what the others say =)

(btw i think its much more important to have a good configured running 
firewall than any av software)


On May 19, 2004, at 3:47 PM, khyber courchesne wrote:

> Hello, I just wanted to ask if there are indeed OSX viruses.  I thought
> there were none, yet we have Virex sitting over there in the corner.  
> Just
> wanted to settle a running discussion with the people in my graphics
> department:  every time something goes wrong with a machine (kernel 
> panic,
> slow file transfer, etc) somebody invariably says, "it must be a 
> virus!"
> while everyone else nods in sympathy.
>
> I know I could have posted this on lots of other more pertinent 
> discussion
> boards, but the Ti list seems to me to have the best ratio of ACTUAL 
> expert
> knowledge / probability of flame war.
> Thanks people!