Hi,

That is dead-on the mark. I always just explain Mac OS X as "Unix with a GUI". Saying that, very few viruses do exist.

Regards,
Nic

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On 19 Apr 2010, at 02:08, Ben Mustill-Rose <bmustillr...@gmail.com> wrote:

No, the real reason why it's hard is because osx = unix.

Did the tweet include a link? It might be helpfull to include this so
that we can see what the tweeter was going on about.

On 19/04/2010, Joe Plummer <joeplum...@tds.net> wrote:
That is not the reason for it being hard to get a virus on a Mac. The new OS of windows does the same thing. The reason it is hard to get this stuff on a Mac is that for now there is no one writing the stuff for the Mac. Because it is not a big enough market. Now it becoming more and more popular this
might change.



Sign,
Joe Plummer ( JP )
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I would't worry about it to much, because the mac will ask you if you want
to install and tell you what is installing.
That is why it is hard to get a virus on a mac now.
On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:34 PM, marie Howarth wrote:

someone just retweeted something about malwear now being able to take over
macs. If this is true, how does everyone think we should protect our macs? I know norton and such programmes are available, but I hated them when I was on the windows side. One of the reasons I came to the mac was because the lack of viruses. Do those of you among us with more knowledge than I possess on this matter think this is a real threat and what would you do about it?
I'm a pretty frightful mac user right now.

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