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Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3730
No the virus was actually discovered in the wild and actually infected some system files and turned the Macs infected into spam zombies. Read all about it. While some call it a worm, it does have the virus capability of replicating itself to your memory from a web site. Thus it's a virus. Human or Social Engineering is not platform specific. They get pbuttwords and other infor by tricking the user to enter the information on a look-alike web site or other site. No it isn't. I was part of the hacker community from the start and Apple may have started out being loved by hackers along with early IBM and Commodore, but in the 90s, it was deemed a joke toy computers by many hackers. It was the AOL of computers. Who told you that it's impossible? Apple computers in one test were broken into and the operator disconnected the internet and deemed the attack unsuccessful. There is that virus I told you about earlier. No it isn't. You just don't know enough to make these kind of broad statements. I suggest you read up on it before making statements like "Impossible to break into a Mac from the Internet." Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3731 denials, evasions, and rhetoric omitted..)) I've worked on both Mach and BSD (which I gather you're aware are the roots... John
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