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No point for writing MAC viruses

May 10, 2005 5:19PM PDT

mac has little viruses because it wouldn't make a big impact to infect them. nobody's gonna get famous for it. think about it, what if macs had a big bad virus like Blaster.... you might hear it on the news, but it would fade out the next day, no one's gonna panic like if it was on windows, in fact they might laugh at WHY some bored teenager would even bother to write a virus for macs (i would). it's not like "oh no, the widespread "xxx" virus is infecting many desktops and webservers" (what mac servers?) The Apple can rot o_O

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