Viruses on the Macintosh?
Viruses on the Macintosh?
- Subject: Viruses on the Macintosh?
- From: "Gordon C. Mattox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:45:20 -0500
As a .mac member I just received the February 7 ".Mac Connection" e-mail announcement of Virex. 7.2 with auto updating. The message states that there are more than 62,000 virus threats today.
I would like to quote from Pogue's "Mac OS X, The Missing Manual", 2nd edition, page 647:
"Viruses? What viruses? One great thing about the old Mac OS was that there were hardly any viruses to worry about-all the nasties seemed to be written for Windows. But now that we're using Unix, which has been around for 30 years and has a huge user base, is it time to worry again?
Nope. There are even fewer viruses for Unix than for the Mac OS.
You still need to be careful with Word and Excel macro viruses, of course. If you open a Word or Excel attachment sent by email from someone else, and a big fat dialog box warns you that it contains macros, simply click Disable Macros and get on with life.
Otherwise, you have little to worry about. Sleep well."
Does anyone care to comment on this?
Gordon Mattox
Lynchburg Apple Core
Lynchburg, VA, USA
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