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Exactly how virus-proof are Macs?
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Is it really that much harder for a Mac to get a virus than a PC?

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No, it's not really any harder. No one makes virus's to affect ten people though.

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My friend claims that there is only 1 virus that can even access a mac. I don't know how true that is.

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It's not that it's harder necessarily, it's that the userbase is so much smaller there are just less attacks.

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I think it's just that most viruses are made for PCs.

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It's a lot harder for Macs to get viruses, period.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen ever, it just doesn't happen often.
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More people use Windows, thus Windows is targeted more.  If someone really wanted to make stuff for OS X it would not be that hard.  If they know how to make it work in Linux (BSD is actually closer, but for a broad example), it would not be hard to port it over.

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My brother's downloaded tons of shady shit and we haven't gotten a virus yet. So it's pretty hard.

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Ive never had a virus on my mac, and I've never installed any anti-virus software or run any tests.

I don't miss having to run tests all the time and have shitloads of software installed. :)

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Meh, as has been pointed out, you can make viruses for these systems. I've actually read an article about how bragging about there being no way to get a virus (though this was for linux, but they function similarly) was absolutely false. The author proceeded to write a simple virus, though he couldn't make it self-running and it exploited the type of desktop over just the core Unix system, but I assume Mac also suffers from that. Either way, the real reason fewer viruses get caught is because fewer viruses are made, plain and simple.

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Quote: from Mikoto at 4:52 am on April 8, 2009
Ive never had a virus on my mac, and I've never installed any anti-virus software or run any tests.  

I don't miss having to run tests all the time and have shitloads of software installed. :)

If you've never had it scanned, how do you know your install is clean?



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Quote: from soldierofjustice3 at 9:11 am on April 9, 2009
Quote: from Mikoto at 4:52 am on April 8, 2009
Ive never had a virus on my mac, and I've never installed any anti-virus software or run any tests.

 I don't miss having to run tests all the time and have shitloads of software installed. :)

If you've never had it scanned, how do you know your install is clean?

Because Apple products are just that awesome.

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Technically it could happen. But Macs are:

1) More secure
2) No one writes them

So it doesn't happen that much. Yes, tehre are virii out for Macs but chances are you prolly aren't going to get them.

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In future Macs will have a lot of viruses. But also more anti-virus software.

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