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L.C.E.C. on 12 October 2008
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goddog said:

twesterm said:
While I do believe people like to do scare tactics (since people buy fear and not the product) I still refuses to believe there are no Mac viruses in the wild.

It's like the whole iPods break super easy idea and the other ones don't. People think iPods break easy because they see them break more because they are the most popular portable MP3 player out there. You don't hear about the Zunes or Samsung whatevers breaking because people just don't buy them.

You don't hear about Mac viruses because there just aren't that many of them out there because the people who make them don't want to waste their time.

QFT!

 

i agree wit the ipods swap mine out under warranty all the time for battery ware downs, all i can say is in my year working with macs and working on them for others, i have run across one osx virus, and it was an MS office exploit srewing around and corrupting  the library for ms office on a friends computer, it was a common virus to osx and windows, that was patched by ms quickly my friend wa sa moron and didnt know how to patch software. other than that, os9 was the last time ive seen native mac viruses in the wild. 

i was simply asking someone who was posting about viruses to post proof of this to back up a giant yellow, large print warning.

yes all things that can happen on a windows can happen on a mac becuaseboth are personal computers, eve more so now that both are x86 so processor exploits can work, but for now running without anitvirus is an option to mac users, where as its suicide for pcs (for normal users, power users can get away with living on the edge)

 

http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/tp/macvirusfaqs.htm

EDIT: And If About.com is not good enough for you (understandable), then here:

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/macosxleap.html

AND

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/search-results/?search=Mac&action=search&x=0&y=0

The OP said:

"So to have mac os and not get viruses is a huge bonus and I have heard that the next imac upgrade will go something like this:"


This states that Macs cannot get viruses, which, if you're online, which most gamers play online, and most logical people would browse on the same systems, saying that macs can't get viruses is simply not true.