Virus protection, mac viruses

[kelly]

Jennie. Leave the Top One.

Peter said he used tricks with his address to prevent spreading a virus.

Wanted to know how to get others to stop using his address.

Said they gave back/away that PC. Was causing troubles somehow.

[Epaminondas]

Just a note on how bad computer viruses can be:


<< Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play. It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work. Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card. It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear. It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower. Listen to me. Goodtimes does not exist. It cannot do anything to you. But I can. I am sending this message to everyone in the world. Tell your friends, tell your family. If anyone else sends me another E-mail about this fake Goodtimes Virus, I will turn hating them into a religion. I will do things to them that would make a horsehead in your bed look like Easter Sunday brunch. So there, take that Good Times.  >>

[Gregg]

kbear, that quote could only be funnier if it was aired on MSNBC.  

[krissel]

Was up late last week and the CBS overnight news was running in the background.

The anchor, Steve Dunlop, was interviewing a virus "expert" who discussed the SoBig worm and other problems then posted a list of how someone could avoid being a victim.
After going through all the usual precautions like downloading patches, getting  virus protection software, not opening unknown emails, etc. the expert concluded with a selfsatisfied look on his face.

Then Steve Dunlop broke the mood by asking "May I add one more to your list? As a longtime avid user, how about getting a Mac?"

To which the somewhat surprised expert said, " Oh, well, uh, yes, or even Linux".

     

[kelly]

This says.

Windows 71,000

mac. Excluding Word Macros. 26.

Mac Viruses By The Numbers - Word Macro: 553, Classic Mac: 26, OS X: Zero

http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/...3/08/29.1.shtml