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October 28th, 2004, 07:15 AM

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Apple Viruses

Does any one know where i can find out how many viruses were written for the Apple platform in total?? Approximtely

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October 28th, 2004, 07:52 AM

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At my last count there has been only one virus written for Mac OS X, and that was totally harmless. But it does prove it can be done.

I'm sure there were a few more for Classic but I never really had to deal with that so you might want to Google it. Also, this page seems interesting:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/

There's a link about 2/3 of the way down the page that seems promising:

http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communitiesantivirus/macintosh/archives/macvirus/reference/viruses.html

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October 29th, 2004, 04:00 AM

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