On Mar 19, 2004, at 8:00 AM, Andrew wrote:
You need it because those viruses fake the sender's address, so you might get something from someone you "trust", which is really a virus, then not being able to open the "photo" that your "friend" sent, you reply asking him or her to send it again only now your friend's computer (which runs Windows) is infected by that virus that YOU sent.
While this is a plausible scenario, this issue (along with many others on the net) boils down to user training. The Mac did not forward the virus, YOU the user did.
any OS X virii yet, there will be. I used to think the same in the System 7.5.1 days and didn't bother with antivirus, until I got hit by the Autostart worm which after going unnoticed for a week or two rendered most of my documents damaged or useless (It randomely replaced ones with zeros).
While I won't ever say that a particular OS will never become the target of a virus platform, I'm confident that I don't see the future of a virus on OS X looming as closely as you do. Differences of opinion I guess.
Steve Fuller
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