>Talk about prank! The fallacy that Macs are immune from viruses and
>exploits is so much bull-hocky. Macs (and OS-X) are absolutely no more
>impervious to these attacks than are PCs; it is simply that almost all the
>exploits are against the PC, which account for 96% of all computers sold.

Macs are certainly NOT immune. However, there are a number of
features of Windows that certainly don't help the situation. One
of them is being able to double-click on executable code that came
from an outside source (email, web site, USENET) and RUN it without
even having to save it as a disk file. Another is Windows hiding
file extensions so you can't tell the difference between a piece
of malware and an image.

Also, Windows usually gets set up (fixed in Vista, I think) with all
users having administrative privileges. That's not a good thing for
viruses being able to write on and infect system files (at least on
systems with more than one user, other users get infected when the first
one does. That's less likely if users can't write on each other's files.)


>If Macs were 97% of the computers sold, it would be Macs being attacked and
>PC users saying "get a PC". I love the look on the face of a Mac owner that
>has brought his/her machine in for a problem, and we tell them it was
>infected...they actually believe that their machines are "impervious". This
>false sense of security is laugable, and dangerous.