Not Apple File Exchange, File Exchange.
Apple File Exchange was from the System 6 era.
PC Exhange was the System/Mac OS 7 era.
File Exchange is the Mac OS 8-9 era.
Don't ask me why Apple chose to change the
newer version's name to cause confusion with
the first version. :P
And once again a person who thinks all computers
except Macs are "spawn of evil" misses the point.
I did not say a PC virus would do anything to the
Mac via File Exchange or PC Exchange. I said it
should be possible to use a Mac virus to infect
those control panels, converting the Mac into a
carrier or vector for a PC virus.
--- Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I figure it should be possible for some
> enterprising
> >little @$#%nut to infect PC Exchange or File
> >Exchange with a double virus, one PC boot sector
> >virus code and one to make Exchange write the PC
> >virus to any PC floppy you use in the Mac.
> >
> >
> Considering the fact that even people that do posses
> macs old enough
> to run Apple File Exchange, never use it, unless
> they are nutcases
> themselves, and considering the fact it was used for
> file exchange
> with Apple II computers, which are even less common
> nowadays than old
> macs, you'd be indeed a nutcase to write a virus for
> it, since there
> would be little chance of it ever spreading.
> If a DOS/WIN/NT virus would turn up on a mac, by
> floppy drive or
> e-mail, it wouldn't do any harm. Macs are immune to
> those viruses.
> BTW I don't think these virus makers are nuts. They
> just create
> organisms that hunt down the weak and sick. It's all
> part of
> evolution: survival of the fittest and all that
> stuff. PC's are for
> the stupid masses, Macs are for the spiritual and
> intellectual elite.
> Our machines are just better and stronger. :-)
=====
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