If you have to instal it on purpose, It's NOT a Virus.
Hello Everyone,
I have had my same MacBook Pro running OSX for 10 years, since 2003.
I'm a professional PC technician going on almost 20 years now and an uber computer nerd, so I spend most all my time on my mac, hehe.
I've downloaded... all sorts of things at one time or another.
With that said,
I have never, NEVER
seen, nor heard of, nor in any way personally encountered a virus for my mac.
In these 10 years, I have also only encountered one single piece of (spyware, malware... not sure what to call it) for my mac that simply changed my FireFox search bar to use yahoo instead of google.
In one of my technician jobs along the way, I got into a huge argument with my boss and almost got fired over this thread's topic.
It ended with me saying, "Fine, call that a virus if you want, but if you have to instal it on purpose, and can get rid of it by simply hitting delete, it is NOT a virus."
That is all ;P
Thank you everyone for being a part of this discussion,
And a special Thanks to GGJstudios!
Keep up the spreading of Truth my friend!
- Bergquist