<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I wouldn't imagine so - for the same reasons that viruses are not common under Linux even when running on x86 processors.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Viruses attack operating systems (or their components) not the processors. For some reason virus writers are more attracted to the near monopoly operating system - and this is only partly due to any inherently greater vulnerability.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Of course, if the move to Intel results in a _hugely_ greater market share for OS X (which I doubt) then of course OS X may become more attractive to virus writers. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Ian</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 23 Nov 2005, at 22:02, Loren wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Just wondering, once MacOSX goes i386ish, will it become more</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">susceptible to Windows type viruses and vulnerable to a larger army of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">viri-coders?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New">----------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New">Ian Collier<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:ian.collier@mac.com">ian.collier@mac.com</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier New; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">+44 (0)121 472 2666<FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(cell) +44 (0)7866 510075</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New">----------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>