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<blockquote data-quote="djames42" data-source="post: 397904" data-attributes="member: 13241"><p>What I find entertaining is the comments made by my heathen-box using friends (I live a few miles up the road from Microsoft, and Seattle is just not the most Mac-friendly environment because of it). People seem to have this feeling that no viruses exist because nobody cares about us. "Who wants to write a virus to target 5% of the market?"</p><p></p><p>My response is: "everyone."</p><p></p><p>With well over 114,000 viruses in existence for Windows and approximately zero for the Mac, a new virus for Windows just means there 114,001 viruses out there, and nobody will pay much attention to it. Since many virus authors are simply megalomaniacs looking for some attention, wouldn't far more attention be paid to the first person who writes a Mac virus?</p><p></p><p>Besides, Macs have more market share now than they did back in the OS 8 days, and yet there were viruses back in those days, so I think that defeats their argument.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djames42, post: 397904, member: 13241"] What I find entertaining is the comments made by my heathen-box using friends (I live a few miles up the road from Microsoft, and Seattle is just not the most Mac-friendly environment because of it). People seem to have this feeling that no viruses exist because nobody cares about us. "Who wants to write a virus to target 5% of the market?" My response is: "everyone." With well over 114,000 viruses in existence for Windows and approximately zero for the Mac, a new virus for Windows just means there 114,001 viruses out there, and nobody will pay much attention to it. Since many virus authors are simply megalomaniacs looking for some attention, wouldn't far more attention be paid to the first person who writes a Mac virus? Besides, Macs have more market share now than they did back in the OS 8 days, and yet there were viruses back in those days, so I think that defeats their argument. [/QUOTE]
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