Anti Virus

[Pascoe,Tim [Burlington]]

	A key point to note is the reason why Mac's are not targeted.
Virus developers are looking to 'make a name' for themselves, and the
only way to do that is through mass infection leading to notoriety. It's
really a big 'fame game', and the score is kept by how much publicity
the virus gets.

	 Since Microsoft OS's dominate the market, they provide the
biggest bang for the buck - it has nothing to do with whether there are
OS vulnerabilities in a MAC OS, or Linux, etc. Not many people use Macs,
so not many viruses target them. If Mac's become as popular as Windows
again.........look out!

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
On Behalf Of Jerry Budd
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:07 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Anti Virus

Hi Jim,

Since '88 through '00, a bunch of times while running OS6/7/8/9.2, 
although a whole lot less at the end than at the beginning (and never 
as often as the comparable Windoz releases of the day).

Since I installed OS-X in 2000 about a dozen times (I'm talking 
unplanned/unintended re-boots here, not the ones where you install a 
new piece of S/W and have to do a restart as part of the installation 
process).  Applications can and do crash, but the operating system 
runs on "protected memory" which pretty well isolates the system from 
the application.  OS-X (which is UNIX based) is incredibly stable.

BTW - my machine is on 24/7/365 so there is plenty of exposure time 
for something to happen.

Thx, Jerry


>Jerry -
>Since 1988, how many times have you had to re-boot the computer(s)?
>Jim -
>
>Jerry Budd <jbudd at QNET.COM>
>Sent by: discussion-request at nsrca.org
>
>11/10/2004 04:21 AM
>Please respond to discussion
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>         To:        discussion at nsrca.org
>         cc:        
>         Subject:        Re: Anti Virus
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>
>
>Ken,
>
>I've been using only Macs since 1988 and I can tell you that the only
>Mac related virus I ever saw was about 8 years ago and it was a
>Microsoft Word Macro Virus that was non-operating system specific
>(meaning that it infected both Mac's and PC's).  It was easily dealt
>with then and I haven't had any problems since, even though I don't
>use virus protection software.  I can't even imagine the grief (and
>expense) most PC owners go through to stay on top of this.  It's not
>something I'd want to have to mess with.
>
>To be honest, being able to completely ignore the virus issues is one
>of the major advantages (of many) to owning a Mac!
>
>Jerry  (Mac G5 Dual 2GHz owner who spends little to no time keeping it
going)

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