I think yes and no. there are viruses (viri?) for Mac and always have been. But most of all are only activated with direct user interaction or exist only in labs and have never come into the wild in large numbers.
The logic would be that the more profitable it becomes to infect Macs the more threats there will be. The fact remains though that it is not as easy to get infected due to the nature of the OS. Most malware is funded by someone and most often for the use of SPAMing and other botnet activities. Either way it is not a bad idea to get an anti-virus product. But that would be simply intelligently cautious. But that is just my take on the issue. >On lowendmac, dated 1/14/09...and thank you felix for answering part >of my question, but I still wonder, will the successive Mac OS's >become increasingly risky to run relatively unprotected? > >steve -- Steve Piscione This email was sent using from a Macintosh using Eudora, a plain / rich text mail app. If you can't say it in plain text it isn't worth saying at all. ;) http://www.dalet-yod.com http://www.kaosfieldstudios.com http://yod9.deviantart.com Come take a peek!!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
