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Re: [Linux-aus] A Current Affair Report on MyDoom Tonight
Leon Brooks wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:29, Con Zymaris wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:19:40AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
"There are now over 85,000 known Microsoft-related viruses and a
handful
there are several thousand for the Mac...
Closer to a few hundred, and effectively none for OS X. Certainly none
*specific* to OS X. None that you would reasonably expect to impact
anything shipped by Apple in the last 3 years.
(Hope I kept the quotes right)
There is still the point that Windows people keep making that Windows
viruses are
so abound just because it is so popular - showing that there are a few
hundreds/thousands
of viruses for Mac might weaken this point.
But that's beside the main thread of the suggested response anyway.
--Amos