I'm afraid I can't buy into that. I've had Word macro viruses (but I got
over that problem by ditching Word!) on my Mac, and got one of the
Autostart worms a few years ago from a professional service bureau. The
dolts couldn't print my file because they ran out of memory, so they
gave me my zip disk back two days later with nary a "sorry, we promised
you the poster by yesterday but we're not going to deliver at all", but
instead a free gift of a virus. When I told them about the virus they
_swore_ it wasn't their fault. I had to personally show them that their
virus definitions were six months out of date before they admitted it
might have been them. Boy was I annoyed. As the resident Mac guru in the
department, I was not impressed to myself be the cause of a virus
getting around onto four of the work machines, plus the Prof's home
machine (the department was too cheap to buy antivirus software, and I
was rendering on their new G3 instead of my old PB5300). Sure, none of
these viruses were particularly nasty, and the Mac
platform is inherently more secure than Windoze, but saying Macs don't
get viruses is really asking for trouble. Much of the reason we don't
get so many is purely due to the small market share, which is nothing to
gloat over.
Dylan
> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:41:34 -0700
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Kak
>
> >This is my first experience with a
> >virus, believe it or not, and I don't know what to do next.
>
> What's a "virus?"
>
> (Gloating from my Mac, which has not had any viruses in the 16 years
> I've been using them... :-)
>
> : Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> : Bytesmiths <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
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