Re: A2Central News

[Roger Johnstone <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit>]

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)

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