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Why write a Mac Virus?
The reason there arent many Mac Virus' is because (if you wrote a virus) would you want to be the guy who took down the 4 Mac computers that are networked in the entire world, or would you rather be the guy to knock down 100,000 Microsoft computers.

There's no 'glory' in writing a virus for an OS that doesn't own more than 5% of the market. Windows is huge, that's why it's getting all the virus writers. If Macs or Linux were dominating, they'd get their fair share (and it'd be much easier with the OS code floating around out there).
Posted by: acomtois@...   Posted on: 11/13/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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