--- Steve Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 9:17 PM -0400 7/27/2001, Amber Rhea wrote:
> >What was the statistic? Over 10,000 known Windows
> viruses and fewer than 10
> >for the Mac?
>
> Closer to truth is 15,000 for Windows/DOS and 700
> for Mac. The
> chance of an effective worm for a Mac would be for
> it to be cross
> platform. Possible? Likely?
I figure it should be possible for some enterprising
little @$#%nut to infect PC Exchange or File
Exchange with a double virus, one PC boot sector
virus code and one to make Exchange write the PC
virus to any PC floppy you use in the Mac.
=====
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