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I have 6 Mac's online 24/7/365 unprotected by any virus software, I'm still waiting for my first trojan horse or virus for more than 10 years without any protection what so ever.

Try that with a PC running Windows.....]]>Nov 6th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/Nov 6th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/

not.

macs are not that spacial.
the only reason pc's are more prone to viruses is because thats what 95% of computer owners use.

not macs.


we don't care that you think macs are gods gift to earth.

get over yourself.
thanks. ]]>Jan 8th 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/
You are beating a very old horse with that old saw.

The fact that only 15% of the worlds computers are Macs and have no virus's is a good thing, not a bad thing.
You're actually helping me with my point.

Your mistake was assuming that there are Mac based viruii in circulation (there aren't) or Trojan Horses (again, in circulation, there aren't).

I guess it's a good thing that your hackers aren't wasting their valuable time writing for Mac's (they can't, the OS won't let them in).]]>Nov 6th 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/142]]>Nov 6th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/
Before you post a reference to something, you should read it first.
The author states that this Trojan Horse is no threat to the Mac OS as it doesn't attack the OS and this is a Trojan Horse that plays on human stupidity.

Conor, you should read and decide if your posting makes sense:

There are also a number of steps that require user interaction for a system to be infected: the user must first be sent the infected file (manually by email, or automated via iChat instant messaging), then the user must double-click and decompress the image, open the image, and finally provide his administrator account and password for the code to be installed. Once installed, the malicious code attempts to hook the launching of any application in a user's application library, and then inject code into application executables. However, a bug in the virus' coding prevents the launching of any application executable after infection.

So what this means is that even if you do all of the "steps of stupidity" to get this on your Mac, you still have to password the OS to get it to run and even then it's so poorly written, it fails.

Much like the point of your posting]]>Nov 7th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/Jan 28th 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/
you certainly seem like a fine judge of character to me.
little wonder that conor has not responded to my missive.]]>Jan 29th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/Nov 12th 2008 3:17AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/06/sneakiest-computer-viruses-2/Jan 20th 2009 2:32PM