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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. 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
  3. 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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  4. 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.) :-)

  5. 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.
  6. Re:How many for Linux? by grue23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just the GPL.

  7. 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?