Re: OT: Macs as virus topics

From: <Christopher>
Date: Mon May 01 2006 - 15:45:00 EDT

On May 1, 2006, at 2:22 PM, slhilding wrote:

> OK, so whomever it was that was gloating about viruses... look out
Seen that, and a couple of others like it. I think it's been fixed already in the new version of Safari. Actually there are a few, more if you count MS Office macro viruses. But he number of viruses that affect Macs is negligible and require a lot more user activity to activate than anything currently plaguing Windows. If Norton or Sophos were depending on Mac malware to stay in business, they'd be belly up by now.

> (and hey, while you're at it, maybe check if you're our spam source).
Not possible--see<
<a href="http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32nyxemd.html">http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32nyxemd.html</a>>. The way W32Nyxem-D works is to fiddle with the registry. There is no registry in a Mac. It also depends on it's own little SMTP engine to send out messages, which won't run on a Mac. BTW, it's a worm, not a virus… And it's still around, I suspect because Paul's e-mail address is still unmoderated.
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