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Re: OS X Malware?
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:11:20 -0800
der Mouse wrote:
There is no Mac malware. Well, [...]Actually, to be fair, there's a statistical sense in which there pretty much *is* no Mac malware. Not that that invalidates (what I see as) your real point, of course.
Yes, and I acknowledge that. And it would be fair to point at my entry as proof that there is no significant problem.
It's intended to counter the argument that there are *no* viruses, that viruses aren't possible on OS X, etc...
Anyone who knows even a little about how viruses work doesn't need to be shown anything to understand that, but it's not for them.
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- RE: OS X Malware?, (continued)
- RE: OS X Malware? Larry Seltzer (Nov 03)
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- RE: RE: OS X Malware? Larry Seltzer (Nov 03)
- RE: RE: OS X Malware? David Harley (Nov 03)
- RE: RE: OS X Malware? Nick FitzGerald (Nov 03)
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- RE: OS X Malware? Larry Seltzer (Nov 03)
- RE: OS X Malware? Nick FitzGerald (Nov 03)
- Re: OS X Malware? der Mouse (Nov 03)
- Re: OS X Malware? Blue Boar (Nov 03)