On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:15:39 +0000
chris French wrote:

As for Mac viruses, yeah there a few - though AIUI no really actively
attacking OS X, but really it doesn't seem worth worrying about if you
are reasonably careful user.

http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/08/29.1.shtml

According to this (no longer current) article 95% of so-called mac viruses
are enabled by microsoft software, i.e. word/excel macros. The remaining
26 attacked the "mac classic" OS, none (as of that date) for OSX. I
wonder what the statistics are now.

Anyway OSX is based on Unix and as such has an inherently more secure file
structure than Windows. The user can't execute code that compromises the OS.
Although he can wipe out his own files, which would be annoying enough!

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