It was thus said that the Great et...@757.org once stated: > > Early Macs definitely had viruses, a few that I got from thrift stores > still have the viruses on them. I don't think there is any memory > protection at all. Software selection for MacOS was pretty crappy, and it > was hard to get under the hood. So protecting yourself from them would be > very difficult on the Mac platform. All the file fork BS, dev tools hard > to get. Also, just like the iPhone pretty much everything was > shareware/commercial, less community stuff than the PC. I feel bad for the > people that grew up on MAcOS versus MS-DOS.
Memory protection does not protect you from a virus. It can protect other running processes from being modified (if they belong to other users they can't be infected at all; other processes owned by the user it's possible, depending upon the system [1]) but that's it. -spc [1] I would say "yes" in general---you do have to be able to debug your own programs and thus, intercept and modify a running process (at the very least, to set a break point).