Hi all,
I wanted to know more exactly, so I searched a bit for info about Mac
viruses:
http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communities/antivirus/macvirus.shtml
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/macintosh-faq/
From those texts, you'll get a feeling for the 'danger' pending over
Mac users: The stats are that a Mac is at least 1000 times less prone to
pick up a virus as a PC.
So the risk is not zero, and in certain cases, you'll want to install
something like Norton AV for Mac, but in general, don't worry.
In the past, there were some Mac viruses, and Mac AV software. I have
been working in an all-Mac environment in those days and viruses were an
issue. But now that those older OSes are getting rarer, viruses die a
natural death: They depend on being able to spread before they are
detected, and that balance is way off nowadays.
About OS X: Read what the experts say:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5268/
And to tip it off, here's an article where Intel CEO Otellini talks
about (future) security solutions:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5861/
One sentence from it:
"Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling
confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his
daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream
computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to
buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, 'If
you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.'"
Ge'
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