Re: A2Central News

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20060918190856308+1200@News.Individual.NET>,
Roger Johnstone  <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote:

> In <eej8u4$ogn$1@merope.saaf.se> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> In article <1fCdnQicDY7fj5HYnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@bresnan.com>,
>> Terry Olsen <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> He also told me how there weren't any 
>>> viruses on Macs.
>> 
>> ....another salesman's pitch .... less informed customers probably 
>> believe him....
>>
>>> I called him on that 
>>> one because I know that there have been. See 
>>> http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/. Then he told me 
>>> that "all  I have to do is reboot and the virus is rendered useless."  
>>> That's funny. I  thought there weren't any viruses on Macs,
> 
> If you read that page there has been _one_ virus for Mac OS X so far, 
> and even that has to get into the system via a trojan first. So 
> technically there aren't viruses on the Mac, just _a_ virus ;o)

You probably realize yourself that there must have been more than one
single Mac virus.  This site for instance mention them in the plural
sense:  http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk/pages/macintosh.html

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