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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. Bah. by Canar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The only reason there are fewer viruses for the Mac is because the Mac has a very low marketshare. If the marketshares of MacOS and Windows were reversed, I'm pretty certain so would the number of viruses released.

    I'm not saying that Microsoft is as good as Apple in terms of virus-fixing, but if I understand correctly, there *was* a patch fixing the RPC vulnerability released before the worm hit. Apple does seem to care more about security, but this may be because if they don't they stand to lose what tenuous little customer support they have.