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Old 07-15-2006   #11 (permalink)
Tamlin
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I was reading an article about this the other day. Apparently, the main reason "Macs don't get viruses" is nothing to do with them being more secure or anything - it's mainly because virus writers know the majority of people use PCs so they don't bother writing viruses for Macs. This could always change, of course, as I believe Mac viruses have been developed but have not been released "into the wild" as they say. If this did happen, I wonder how many Mac users would suffer because they didn't bother with up-to-date antivirus software (or any antivirus at all), simply because they thought "Macs don't get viruses"?
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