On Apr 5, 2005, at 11:11 PM, mike wilson wrote:
No computer is "perfectly safe". My Apple iMac 20" and PowerBook G3 systems running Mac OS X are well managed to minimize security risks and viruses, behind a security firewall and with proper user accounts limiting access to virus invasion. No virus attacks have been detected since May 24, 2001.Not being argumentative but do you really mean that last statement? How does the attacker know that your machine is an Apple and therefore not to be bothered with?
Yes, but let me refine it a touch: there have been no successful virus attacks. I've received emails and files delivering Windows viruses thousands of times, but they do not run in Mac OS or on a PowerPC processor so they cannot attack it. Of the 10 or 12 Mac OS X viruses that exist, I think perhaps two were delivered but were unable to install themselves from a user account process on a properly security-managed Mac OS X system.
(Note that the default Mac OS X configuration, out of the box, is *not* a proper security-managed Mac OS X system.)
I've been running Mac OS X on my home systems since March 24, 2001, the day I helped release it to the public.
Godfrey
