I will have to wave the internet BS flag on that one. Sorry, I was there and have seen a good many quite malicious Apple /Mac viruses of the late 80s and early 90s.
And, OS X is unix and unix is devilishly difficult to generate a self sustaining virus for. It is not impossible but it can not be done with some no brainer script that you email to someone. Remember the internet worms that crashed all of the high power servers a couple of years ago? That was a unix based memory test program from the way back years that was packaged to run as a bot on a unix box and propagate. It was written before networks and internet so no one ever considered what would happen if you loaded it onto a server.... The IBM OS, OS/2 also is almost totally immune to virus attack as it runs as a virtual machine. On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:24:46 -0500, Jim Nichol wrote: >Huh? To quote an article on the Internet: >"Remember that throughout its entire lifespan, the total number of >Mac viruses is below 100." >And of course, non of those were for OSX. >Jim >On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Rich wrote: >> Well, Peter, if you remember back to the late 80s and early 90s the >> Mac was the king of the >> virus world and there were very few on the DOS / Windows side, it >> is all a matter of >> popularity more than anything else. Even Linux is not immune from >> a virus attack. The best >> defence for the windows users is to use any email program that is >> not Outlook Express or >> Outlook. >> >> The average victim is running windows XP without an up to date >> anti virus program and a >> decent fire wall and using Internet Explorer, and MS Outlook or MS >> Outlook Express. >> >> Rich >> >> >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:39:08 -0800, Peter Fraser wrote: >> >>> or you can do like the rest of us, and use your Mac (without worry or >>> fear) to read or look at whatever you'd like. we don't do viruses on >>> this side. >> >>> of course, never provide any info to anybody, no matter what platform >>> you run. >> >>> On Nov 22, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Rich wrote: >> >>>> I will repeat several tings that have been said before but bear >>>> repeating: >>>> >>>> 1) receive a message from "eBay"? then log onto eBay and go to "My >>>> eBay" and look in "My >>>> Messages" if it is there then deal with it there. If not then >>>> perform a TRUE DELETE of the >>>> message in your email IN BOX. Do not open or preview, just perform >>>> a true delete. >>>> >>>> 2) You will have to check your email program to find out how to do >>>> a true delete. Microsoft >>>> Outlook and Outlook Express do not dewlete the message when you hit >>>> the delete button so be >>>> careful. >>>> >>>> Rich >>>> >>>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:33:22 -0500, Dan K wrote: >>>> >>>>> And I just got an "ebay" notice about somebody disputing an "item >>>>> not received". It's a neat >>>> trick, >>>>> considering I have never listed anything on ebay. haha >>>>> The links go through some kind of edu address in Mexico, then >>>>> redirected gawdknowswhere. >>>> Cute. >>>> >>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Robert Wright" <[email protected]> >>>>> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:43 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Ebay Watched Item relisted spoof??? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Definitely a scam. I get 'em sometimes regarding items I'd never >>>>> bother to >>>>> watch in the first place. But don't click on any of the links to >>>>> make sure, >>>>> just delete 'em. >>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Phono-L mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>>> Phono-L Archive >>>>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >>>> >>>>> Support Phono-L >>>>> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Phono-L mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> Phono-L Archive >>>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >>>> >>>> Support Phono-L >>>> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Phono-L mailing list >>> [email protected] >> >>> Phono-L Archive >>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >> >>> Support Phono-L >>> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> Phono-L Archive >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >> >> Support Phono-L >> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >[email protected] >Phono-L Archive >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >Support Phono-L >http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
