OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Greg Ewing <greg_at_cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Mon Nov 19 20:22:05 2001

Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>:

> Of course, MAC OS may not be so virus friendly, but I don't know
> about that.

I can't think of a way for a virus to jump onto a disk on a Mac simply
by the disk being there, without any virus-infected program
running. Unless a virus has attacked the Finder or the OS itself,
which is a possibility, I suppose.

But even then, the virus can't jump *off* the disk onto a previously
clean system without running something from the disk, and that won't
happen unless you explicitly tell it to. If there's some way for that
to happen on Windows, then Windows is definitely more virus-friendly!

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