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It's because:
1. Not many people develop viruses for the Mac because of the market share
2. The security seems to be higher on Macs
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Quote: from GaelicFreak at 11:26 pm on April 6, 2009
 My brother's downloaded tons of shady shit and we haven't gotten a virus yet. So it's pretty hard.
No, that's because windows viruses cannot effect Macs. Theres no Mac viruses on those sites, because theres no point in attacking a few dozen users.
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Quote: from espresso8097 at 2:23 am on April 10, 2009
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.
If theyre so awesome how come theyre obsolete within 8 months?
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Quote: from allsmiles at 4:11 am on June 16, 2009
Quote: from Niick at 8:14 pm on June 15, 2009
Quote: from espresso8097 at 2:23 am on April 10, 2009
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.
If theyre so awesome how come theyre obsolete within 8 months?
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic :P
It's hard to tell with them apple users. They can just be so fanatical about how much better macs are. 
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anonomouse
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Why macs don't get viruses:
They are still relatively obscure (not many people use them, especially in large networks)
There is probably not much company/financial data on macs. It's mostly PCs that take care of that. This gives coders less incentive to write viruses
OS X is built on Unix, which is much more solid and secure than Windows
OS X completely disables the root account so that most average users can't mess with the computer even if they tried. Thus, viruses can't exploit the root privileges because it is disabled.
OS X has more security that will make you type your password before any virus has access to your system.
In the end, writing a virus for OS X is not hard at all. It's just it's harder to write a virus that can install without the user noticing.
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