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Article #12376Re: PowerMac 7300/180 hardware question.
From: Morten Dreier
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:46
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:46
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pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> wrote: > Morten Dreier wrote: > > >Hey - this is a Mac. The chance of someone giving you a virus or hacking > >your machine is very, very low. I've had Macs connected to the internet > >since 1995, and I have not seen _any_ attempts of hacking or virus > >infection from the internet. > >I've had one virus, in 1992, but my nice antivirus-program, GateKeeper, > >just removed it. > > Why is this? Is it due to the way Mac's function, or simply that hackers > don't bother with them? The design of the operating system as a whole does make it very difficult to make viruses. Sure - one of the first viruses was made for a Unix system, but since then Windows has been proved as an exellent breeding-ground for viruses - because of the design of the Windows operating system. -- Morten Dreier http://morten.dreier.no/
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X-Google-Thread: feb82,8ee5f5fa6576104c X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,8ee5f5fa6576104c X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!uio.no!ntnu.no!morten From: morten@nowhere.fast.invalid (Morten Dreier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,aus.computers.mac Subject: Re: PowerMac 7300/180 hardware question. Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:46:42 +0100 Organization: nsfm.no Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1gsys11.ph66g19drewwN%morten@nowhere.fast.invalid> References: <umPUd.179212$K7.89111@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <280220051733249598%dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> <RjVUd.179794$K7.139609@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <Xns960CDC4D1683E16106@81.174.12.30> <4kXUd.179999$K7.88555@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <jrp59-56F420.04533101032005@news.verizon.net> <eXsVd.181688$K7.131550@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <1gsu8se.1b28mo4tgxwqoN%morten@nowhere.fast.invalid> <JOcWd.184947$K7.23587@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Reply-To: news-morten@dreier.no (Morten Dreier) NNTP-Posting-Host: furu.idi.ntnu.no X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1110044802 23809 129.241.107.64 (5 Mar 2005 17:46:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:46:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.7 (Mac OS X version 10.3.8)