While Macs are not able to be infected with windoze viruses or malware,
do be careful with those critters that come in to your email boxes
(make sure you delete them), because you CAN infect a windoze user by
forwarding the mail to them.
Jerry
p.s. some facts for your UK friends:
Linux and Unix systems are attacked the most often (not very often
successful), windoze is far down on the list because it is too easy to
get inside a windoze server.
One of those sobig viruses that has been afflicting the windoze users,
sofig.f I believe, took the author 15 minutes to write (so much for
'trustworthy computing').
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 10:16 PM, Joyce MacDonald wrote:
> on 9/18/03 9:16 PM, Marta Edie at mledie at insightbb.com wrote:
>
>> Here is a link to David Pogue's Circuits, e-mail edition of the New
>> York Times .It gives insight into the vulnerablity issues concerning
>> viruses in the different operating systems.i
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/circuits/18POGUE-
>> EMAIL.html
>>
>> Marta
>> Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin A.D.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
>
> Solid discussion from a writer who knows what he's talking about. At
> work
> (the Windows-dominated College of Arts & Sciences at UK), I hear the
> "nobody
> bothers writing viruses for Macs because they'd affect so few users"
> story
> all the time. (If being common means frantic patching that might or
> might
> not screw up your computer, network slowdowns, and overflowing
> mailboxes,
> you can have it.) My hunch was always that the Unix base of OS X is
> just
> tougher to crack, and/or that a lot of really sloppy code comes out of
> Redmond. Of course, this doesn't mean that at some point in the future
> somebody wouldn't be able to infect Macs on newer OS, or that some
> kind of
> mysterious multiple-platform virus/worm wouldn't mess up everybody,
> but for
> now can Alex rest fairly assured that nothing is going to be
> irretrievably
> messed up in _her_ system?
> Joyce
>
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
| This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
