Re: [WinMac] making a mac cd-rom

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:14:44 -0700

Curt SIters wrote:
>
> I been running Mac for over thirteen years and it has been over eight since
> I had ANY virus protection because I haven't had any virus' in that period
> of time.
>
> The last I heard was that the official count of Mac virus' was near 60
> (wintel over 60,000). So the chances of someone getting one are very slim.
>

The only problem is that this is why the autostart worm managed to go
through the Mac community so fast. People got real complacent viruses.
As a consequence the worm got shipped on a lot of commercial software.

But on the whole, if you turn off CD Autostart and don't use MicroSloth
apps, you're pretty well immune to Mac viruses.

As an example, the last Mac virus I got was the WDEF virus...which dates
it (and me): that one was 'cured' by System 7...;-)

To be honest, most modern PC's are immune to the vast majority of those
60,000 virii, as well; they're old and outdated DOS ones.

The BIG pita now, at least from a system admin pov is the %$@#!$
cockroach-like proliferation of Office Macro viruses.

(thank ghod we're not stupid enough to run a 100% MS shop here, we were
spared the big pain of melissa and her various mutated cousins.) 

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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