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Orethrius:
Why does Reuters feel the need to hurt Apple's bottomline by re-enforcing this bunkem?  Guess I'll have to start using SlashDot for balanced views.  :rolleyes:

themacuser:
Why do they even have anti-virus for Mac OS X even though THERE ARE NO VIRUSES FOR OS X ANYWAY!? Well, I almost wasted my money...

I have 20 viruses on my computer... They're WIndows viruses and it's a Mac! No problem.

jtpenrod:
Why do they even have anti-virus for Mac OS X even though THERE ARE NO VIRUSES FOR OS X ANYWAY!? Well, I almost wasted my money...

Contrary to popular opinion, *NIX systems may need to run anti-virus soft. Even if these WinVirii(tm) can't actually affect the *NIX system, you still need to prevent "pass through" where the *NIX infects Win systems connecting to it. This would, of course, include *NIX mail servers.

I have 20 viruses on my computer... They're WIndows viruses and it's a Mac! No problem.

If this were a server, then it would be a problem, not for you, but for others. Not terminating these virii would not be good "Netizen-ship".

Speaking of WinVirii(tm) and *NIX, check This out.  :D

themacuser:

--- Quote from: jtpenrod ---Why do they even have anti-virus for Mac OS X even though THERE ARE NO VIRUSES FOR OS X ANYWAY!? Well, I almost wasted my money...

Contrary to popular opinion, *NIX systems may need to run anti-virus soft. Even if these WinVirii(tm) can't actually affect the *NIX system, you still need to prevent "pass through" where the *NIX infects Win systems connecting to it. This would, of course, include *NIX mail servers.

I have 20 viruses on my computer... They're WIndows viruses and it's a Mac! No problem.

If this were a server, then it would be a problem, not for you, but for others. Not terminating these virii would not be good "Netizen-ship".

Speaking of WinVirii(tm) and *NIX, check This out.  :D
--- End quote ---


Seen it already...
It's not a server, it's just my machine. I might want to send the viruses to windows users if they annoy me... "Why do you use a Mac?" "Because THAT's why..."

Thanks for the link, I couldn't find it yesterday.

Now will they hurry up with DarWine so I can do that!!!

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