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Article #5173Mac Virus Harmlessness
From: Joe McMahon
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 21:32
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 21:32
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It's interesting, but up until now, most viruses on the Mac have been "damageless" - the only reason the cause trouble is because of bugs and incompatabilities, not deliberately harmful code. nVIR, at worst, causes your Mac to beep in some cases (side effects are worse - crashes, hangs, printing failures). Perhaps we just haven't had the right (wrong?) people writing Mac viruses so far. Any ideas? --- Joe M.
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