2006-11-29 22:59:43 · 6 answers · asked by Jinks 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
No they don't. There are no OS X viruses in the wild. Not 14, but 0. There was a trojan, not a virus, that some people called a virus, but it had no way to propagate itself.
Many PC apologists claim that it's because of market share, but versions of the OS prior to OS X had fewer users and they had viruses. The reason OS X has none has much more to do with it's excellent security than market share.
2006-11-30 08:09:31 · answer #1 · answered by nospamcwt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like someone above said, there are just 14 viruses targeted at the MAC and following adopting the usual good security measures should prevent you from getting one. As for your question, theoretically, it is possible to get a virus on a MAC but it just isn't very likely. Of course this assumes that you are running OSX. If you were to run some other operating system like Windows, then the scenario changes completely.
2006-11-30 07:09:33 · answer #2 · answered by p.i.m.p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mac can be infected with virus's, the only reason there are so few, is that virus programmers tend to write viruses for the most popular piece of hardware, or software...See this then means their virus's gain more exposure and infect the greatest number of machines..
This is evident with Firefox and IE
There are at the moment alot of programmers who exploit security holes in IE, because it's the most popular...
Yet firefox is gaining popularity so will soon have people looking into the program much more closely looking to exploit any potential security flaws...
2006-11-30 07:11:29 · answer #3 · answered by xion506 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
there were 14 viruses written for the mac last year up from 4 the year before compare that to 1195 written for the pc
2006-11-30 07:01:59 · answer #4 · answered by spankdis 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-12-01 05:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sure it does, if it is programmable by software, it has the potential of getting hit by a virus.
2006-11-30 07:06:18 · answer #6 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋