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Asking for trouble?

AliensAreFuzzy said:
Man, I just read this article from the hot news on Apple's web site...
http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html
This is just asking for someone to write a virus
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this is old news in the computer security world, and the virus writers know about this. the articles details why a virus writer wouldn't be to compelled to write virus. there hasn't been a virus on the mac for 3-4 years.
 
This thread has gotten me confused...

The link is an iMac review..No viruses.

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On second thought, this link is ALL about about viruses on Mac's.
 
He must have meant this one:

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20040916.html

And so what, even if it did encourage someone to finally write a virus for the Mac, all it would accomplish was 1) make people buy AV software, 2) make Windows people say "See? Nyah, nyah!", 3) make Mac people say "aaah.. 1 to 50,000 ratio of Mac viruses to Windows viruses. We're still winning. Nyah, nyah.", 4) it'll get patched and fixed within a week, and then it would all die away in a few months and the only people that would still rant about it are A-hats who write internet columns about Windows boxes and how dope they are and how much Apples are for tools and morons, screaming with wild eyes and spittle flying "There's a Mac virus! There's a Mac virus!".
 
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