[Linux-aus] A Current Affair Report on MyDoom Tonight

[linux-aus at amos.mailshell.com]

Leon Brooks wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:29, Con Zymaris wrote:
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>>On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:19:40AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
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>>>"There are now over 85,000 known Microsoft-related viruses and a
>>>handful
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>>there are several thousand for the Mac...
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>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.
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(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