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1. Comment - Report: 1 Million Mac Switchers in 2005

   (Nov 9, 2005 - 12:29 PM)

   Go to Symantec Antivirus Research Center (www.sarc.com) and click on search. Narrow your search parameters by clicking on "Viruses, Trojan horses, Worms and Macros" in the box below the search field and in the search field type Mac OSX Virus. You will get over 7,000 hits, many of which are not restricted to the Mac. I only looked at the first page of 10 articles and on that page saw at least 2 Mac OSX virii. As for the comment about the Applescript virii, if you ever get hit with one, you will not know the difference between an applescript one and an executable one once your system is pooched.
   
   It is true that the virii for Mac are far fewer however and that is worth something.
   
   By the way, many BSD or Unix based virii will clobber the Mac OS, some of which have been around for a very long time.