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Mac's Immunity To Recent Virus Attacks

Posted by pudge on from the snork dept.

bluepinstripe writes " An article over at MacCentral references two articles about the Mac's immunity to the recent virus attacks." This is nothing new, but worthy of note, from time to time, such as now.

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  1. Ack! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have had first post, but my computer was infected with MSBlast!

  2. Re:Common Sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Unfortunately?

    -Bill Gates

  3. Viruses are fun at work (slight OT) by chia_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, we have fun at work with all the viruses and worms. I have my TiBook at home and don't really care about anything (obviously). Here at work I'm using Windows. Every time an email comes in, me or my officemate will read the subject name and who it's from and then try to guess what the contents are. "Generic Viagara" is a common one. Then if there's an attachment, try to guess if it's a .pif or .scr. You should try it. And then go home, hop on your Mac, and be productive again.

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    "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
    1. Re:Viruses are fun at work (slight OT) by skinfitz · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, we have fun at work with all the viruses and worms. I have my TiBook at home and don't really care about anything (obviously).

      Spoken like a true Mac admin.

  4. Thank you, Mail.app! by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yeah, we're not infected, but we still have to deal with all the nitwit "BIG SCARY SYSADMIN MESSAGE: YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED WITH SoBig.F! YOU SENT THIS TO OUR SERVER!" messages that are still streaming in.

    What I wouldn't give for a shiny little app that identifies these and autoresponds to the postmaster and abuse addresses with "I'm on a Mac, you insufferable bint. You're a sysadmin, for god's sake. You should know that SoBig.F spoofs the FROM: line. I am not infected with this virus, you are dumb, and I have notified your superiors that you have absolutely no clue as to how to run a mail server and that you should be fired. I hear the U.S. Army is hiring."

    They could call it iSmackYouUpsideTheHead.

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    Obliteracy: Words with explosions

  5. Phrased another way... by mcgroarty · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is yet -another- kind of software that doesn't work on the Mac.

    (Yes, I know -- mod me down because I won't drink the Kool Aid... but I -did- just order myself an iPod for use with Linux.) :-)

  6. Re:MS Office Viruses (Re:Common Sense) by jokell82 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the biggest virus threat on the mac comes/came from Microsoft? How surprising! :)

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    I dunno who it is
    but it prolly is fhqwhgads.
  7. Re:How many for Linux? by grue23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just the GPL.

  8. Re:"Mac" DoS'd themselves! by TobascoKid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Us Canadians enjoy english.

    Even in Quebec? :-)

    Tk

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  9. We need to start a meme circulating... by alispguru · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can see the graphic for it right now:

    Big red concentric circles - traditional target

    At 10 'oclock - Mac OS X logo

    At 2 'oclock - Tux

    At 4 and 8 'oclock - Darts with a virus and a worm riding them

    Dead center - the Windows logo

    Across the bottom - Move out of the bullseye!

    A simple, accurate description of the main reason you're safer Anywhere But Windows.

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    To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
  10. Re:And Linux, FreeBSD et al??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My god... I thought the whole GNU/Linux thing was ridiculous, but Linux/FreeBSD takes the cake! Why the !$@%# is Linus insisting that FreeBSD be spelled this way???? The world is going to hell... :(

  11. Let me get this straight.... by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny
    A point that should be made throughout all this virus hoopla is that while Macintosh users are generally immune from any direct attack from PC viruses, a Macintosh user can be a "typhoid Mary" style carrier by passing along a virus from an email or infected file.

    So not only is my Mac immune to Windows viruses; it also helps those viruses destroy Windows machines?

    So what's the downside?