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	<title>Comments on: Viruses on Mac OS X.</title>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62735</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No spyware for MAC????
http://www.securemac.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No spyware for MAC????<br />
<a href="http://www.securemac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.securemac.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62734</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are NO MAC viruses?????
http://www.securemac.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are NO MAC viruses?????<br />
<a href="http://www.securemac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.securemac.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62733</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Impervious to virus&#039; and hackers&quot;
REALY???
http://www.securemac.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Impervious to virus&#8217; and hackers&#8221;<br />
REALY???<br />
<a href="http://www.securemac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.securemac.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62732</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOOK HERE
http://www.securemac.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOOK HERE<br />
<a href="http://www.securemac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.securemac.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62731</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Check it out
http://www.securemac.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check it out<br />
<a href="http://www.securemac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.securemac.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62730</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.securemac.com/</description>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62729</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just to clarify that MACS get infected check this 
http://www.securemac.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just to clarify that MACS get infected check this<br />
<a href="http://www.securemac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.securemac.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: ComputerDave</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-62728</link>
		<dc:creator>ComputerDave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish that extreemist MAC supporters would stop throwing ROCKS (viruses and retoricle comments) at Windows...Windows is a great system and should be revered as one. Only Morons who willingly subject themselves to such infections will Quickly learn how not to become infected... If you keep hiding under mommys skirt you wont know what hit you when you finaly venture out. Someone will figure out how to write a way around the root and smack that ass. If you hadn&#039;t been hiding under mommys skirt you would have learned the warning signs. Most knowledgeable Windows users Know to set up restricted user accounts where as you have to use a password to enable the priviledges to the root to execute. Same steps are employed just in a more user freindly approach. Which I will grant that it is too easlily Ignored thus another infected LEARNS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish that extreemist MAC supporters would stop throwing ROCKS (viruses and retoricle comments) at Windows&#8230;Windows is a great system and should be revered as one. Only Morons who willingly subject themselves to such infections will Quickly learn how not to become infected&#8230; If you keep hiding under mommys skirt you wont know what hit you when you finaly venture out. Someone will figure out how to write a way around the root and smack that ass. If you hadn&#8217;t been hiding under mommys skirt you would have learned the warning signs. Most knowledgeable Windows users Know to set up restricted user accounts where as you have to use a password to enable the priviledges to the root to execute. Same steps are employed just in a more user freindly approach. Which I will grant that it is too easlily Ignored thus another infected LEARNS.</p>
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		<title>By: jimmyrayjit</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-51504</link>
		<dc:creator>jimmyrayjit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://carallumaburn.myweightlosstoday.com" rel="nofollow">http://carallumaburn.myweightlosstoday.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: jimmyrayjit</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-51502</link>
		<dc:creator>jimmyrayjit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>DVD to iPhone for Mac is a smart way to enjoy DVD audios and videos on iPhone. Actually iPhone don’t support DVD file format so before playing DVD files on iPhone, you should try to change their format using DVD to iPhone Converter for Mac.

http://www.ipodfileconverter.com/dvd-to-ipod-for-mac.php</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DVD to iPhone for Mac is a smart way to enjoy DVD audios and videos on iPhone. Actually iPhone don’t support DVD file format so before playing DVD files on iPhone, you should try to change their format using DVD to iPhone Converter for Mac.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ipodfileconverter.com/dvd-to-ipod-for-mac.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipodfileconverter.com/dvd-to-ipod-for-mac.php</a></p>
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		<title>By: jimmyrayjit</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-51501</link>
		<dc:creator>jimmyrayjit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>iPhone Copy Software is a smart application to copy your saved iPhone data into any external storage media. Using this way you can keep safe your iPhone data without putting any time and extra skills or efforts.

http://www.iphonefiletransfer.org/iphone-copy-software.php</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>iPhone Copy Software is a smart application to copy your saved iPhone data into any external storage media. Using this way you can keep safe your iPhone data without putting any time and extra skills or efforts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iphonefiletransfer.org/iphone-copy-software.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.iphonefiletransfer.org/iphone-copy-software.php</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-51137</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>again..i used wron word..between would and could ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>again..i used wron word..between would and could ;)</p>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-51135</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you are cool...!!! i agree as what you said...

Further, due to the strong separation between normal users and the privileged root user, our Linux user would have to be running as root to really do any damage to the system. He could damage his /home directory, but that’s about it. So the above steps now become the following: read, save, become root, give executable permissions, run. The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes. And since Linux users are taught from the get-go to never run as root, and since Mac OS X doesn’t even allow users to use the root account unless they first enable the option, it’s obvious the likelihood of email-driven viruses and worms lessens on those platforms.

................................................................

how many people who could create a virus file damage all those root files...execution ;)

SW..Master of science (network system) Mel,Aus</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you are cool&#8230;!!! i agree as what you said&#8230;</p>
<p>Further, due to the strong separation between normal users and the privileged root user, our Linux user would have to be running as root to really do any damage to the system. He could damage his /home directory, but that’s about it. So the above steps now become the following: read, save, become root, give executable permissions, run. The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes. And since Linux users are taught from the get-go to never run as root, and since Mac OS X doesn’t even allow users to use the root account unless they first enable the option, it’s obvious the likelihood of email-driven viruses and worms lessens on those platforms.</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>how many people who could create a virus file damage all those root files&#8230;execution ;)</p>
<p>SW..Master of science (network system) Mel,Aus</p>
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		<title>By: Gary</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-47212</link>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why do all the Mac users insist that this pc (you heard right, it&#039;s still a personal computer, whether Jobs thinks it is or not) is better than all the rest. Sure, you get alot less viruses, but that still doesn&#039;t mean you&#039;re totally immune from them. If you were, than why would you have built-in virus software installed? The sad thing about the pc wars is that Gates and Jobs used to be friends at one time, now it&#039;s all about who&#039;s better, who&#039;s best and who gets less viruses.

Don&#039;t worry Mac users, some dipwad will come along and throw a crap load of viruses your way.  Don&#039;t think you&#039;ll be safe forever, because all good things come to an end.

Btw, I had an Apple about 4 years ago. I thought the thing sucked because it always froze up on me. Also, it looked stupid (who the f---
wants a computer that looks like a fruit) and costs an arm and a leg.
Hey, Steven, did they use a (cr)Apple to for your new liver?  Join back up with Gates so the Oddest Couple (other than Siegfried and Roy and Penn and Teller)can squeeze more money out of everyone!

foot-note: to anyone I may have offended... sorry, but that&#039;s the brakes. Too bad my friend, Albert, wasn&#039;t around. You (and your Macs)
would see what a real virus could do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do all the Mac users insist that this pc (you heard right, it&#8217;s still a personal computer, whether Jobs thinks it is or not) is better than all the rest. Sure, you get alot less viruses, but that still doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re totally immune from them. If you were, than why would you have built-in virus software installed? The sad thing about the pc wars is that Gates and Jobs used to be friends at one time, now it&#8217;s all about who&#8217;s better, who&#8217;s best and who gets less viruses.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry Mac users, some dipwad will come along and throw a crap load of viruses your way.  Don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll be safe forever, because all good things come to an end.</p>
<p>Btw, I had an Apple about 4 years ago. I thought the thing sucked because it always froze up on me. Also, it looked stupid (who the f&#8212;<br />
wants a computer that looks like a fruit) and costs an arm and a leg.<br />
Hey, Steven, did they use a (cr)Apple to for your new liver?  Join back up with Gates so the Oddest Couple (other than Siegfried and Roy and Penn and Teller)can squeeze more money out of everyone!</p>
<p>foot-note: to anyone I may have offended&#8230; sorry, but that&#8217;s the brakes. Too bad my friend, Albert, wasn&#8217;t around. You (and your Macs)<br />
would see what a real virus could do.</p>
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		<title>By: Wishful Thinking by Mac Users</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-36700</link>
		<dc:creator>Wishful Thinking by Mac Users</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/Macintosh_Viruses_and_Mac_Virus_Resources.htm

Welcome to reality.</description>
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<p>Welcome to reality.</p>
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		<title>By: Pamantha</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-35262</link>
		<dc:creator>Pamantha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is there a way to locate someone locally to try this?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there a way to locate someone locally to try this?</p>
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		<title>By: Josh Justins</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-27889</link>
		<dc:creator>Josh Justins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I accualy hope more people buy apples, so some of the people making viruses for the pc, will accualy change their focus to anyone with an apple! that would reduce the amount of attacks on pc owners, and make everyone just a little bit happier.&quot;

This goes with my line of thinking that there&#039;s few viruses written on Macs because its users aren&#039;t bitter.

The unibomber&#039;s manifesto was chocked full of references to the Blue Screen of Death. Just look for yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I accualy hope more people buy apples, so some of the people making viruses for the pc, will accualy change their focus to anyone with an apple! that would reduce the amount of attacks on pc owners, and make everyone just a little bit happier.&#8221;</p>
<p>This goes with my line of thinking that there&#8217;s few viruses written on Macs because its users aren&#8217;t bitter.</p>
<p>The unibomber&#8217;s manifesto was chocked full of references to the Blue Screen of Death. Just look for yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: Chase</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-2572</link>
		<dc:creator>Chase</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mac systems are inevitable to receive viruses. I am a windows and a mac user. I do accept that windows has more flexibility to more varieties of software, but not having a virus is about as effective as saying that no computer can be hacked. Murphy&#039;s Law people the worse possible thing that could occur which you don&#039;t expect to occur does usually occur. Eventually Mac&#039;s will be filled with the problem of viruses and malware and when that day comes most of the bloggers (mac users are stereotypically bloggers) will realize that they will receive a virus. Macs download most of their software and it is possible to create a virus on a Mac so please people just realize that the inevitable will occur and has occured. Two viruses have been found for macs and it is just time until most macs will need virus protection. sorry suck it up. windows users deal with it and we&#039;re fine. I&#039;ve got 2 computers with one virus protection each and it&#039;s good. I&#039;m careful and mac users can just suck it up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mac systems are inevitable to receive viruses. I am a windows and a mac user. I do accept that windows has more flexibility to more varieties of software, but not having a virus is about as effective as saying that no computer can be hacked. Murphy&#8217;s Law people the worse possible thing that could occur which you don&#8217;t expect to occur does usually occur. Eventually Mac&#8217;s will be filled with the problem of viruses and malware and when that day comes most of the bloggers (mac users are stereotypically bloggers) will realize that they will receive a virus. Macs download most of their software and it is possible to create a virus on a Mac so please people just realize that the inevitable will occur and has occured. Two viruses have been found for macs and it is just time until most macs will need virus protection. sorry suck it up. windows users deal with it and we&#8217;re fine. I&#8217;ve got 2 computers with one virus protection each and it&#8217;s good. I&#8217;m careful and mac users can just suck it up.</p>
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		<title>By: entropykills</title>
		<link>http://theappleblog.com/2005/06/24/viruses-on-mac-os-x/#comment-2571</link>
		<dc:creator>entropykills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i am still baffled that there are in fact more viruses / malware / spyware / trogans for windows and microsoft software in general than for Macs.  microsoft deserves the abuse for making software with so many security holes in it but i think that if the same manpower was put towards Macs, simmular statistics would result.  i know people like to pick on microsoft because to some, they are the corporate symbol of evil, but at least windows will install on almost any machine hardware configuration, including Macs.  now i don&#039;t really &quot;like&quot; windows but something must be said about an OS that can be installed with default drivers to suet the needs of over millions of different hardware configurations of the diverse PC.  it may not be perfect and sometimes it fails completely but that is quite the task to undertake.  this applies to linux as well but we&#039;re not really talking about linux here.  Macs on the other hand won&#039;t install on any other machine other than Mac &quot;blessed&quot; machines.  so much for being universal.  Mac users often tell me how great their Mac is because they can even install windows on it, well that&#039;s because windows was coded well enough to support almost any hardware configuration.  back in the old days when Mac actually used PPC&#039;s there was a reason for the OS to be tailored to those specific needs, but now??  come on Mac, you&#039;re using Intel CPU&#039;s with Intel chipsets on your motherboards!  you&#039;re not really a Mac anymore, you&#039;re a PC that&#039;s been &quot;blessed&quot; to allow the installation of OS-X.  you should be called PCOS-X&#039;s not Mac OS-X&#039;s!  and at least windows went through the trouble of writing the OS from scratch, whether that was a good choice is up for debate, but Mac just used the already created UNIX.

the point i&#039;m getting at here is that Mac is much more of a fascist corporation than microsoft has ever been.  actually i should probably say iFascist to comply with the trademark.  okay, so windows OS likes to bundle along &quot;windows media player&quot; and &quot;internet explorer&quot; but at least they haven&#039;t started bundling software with other software, i.e. itunes with quicktime, or safari with itunes, etc...

so i&#039;m surprised that there are more viruses etc. for windows because Mac is obviously much more of a fascist corporation that microsoft.  and as seen in this forum, the majority of mac users don&#039;t even have any antivirus software installed, making them so easy to hack.

and they say windows users are closed minded.  i bet 90% of Mac users have never opened their terminal or even know what it is.

for shame.... for shame.............</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i am still baffled that there are in fact more viruses / malware / spyware / trogans for windows and microsoft software in general than for Macs.  microsoft deserves the abuse for making software with so many security holes in it but i think that if the same manpower was put towards Macs, simmular statistics would result.  i know people like to pick on microsoft because to some, they are the corporate symbol of evil, but at least windows will install on almost any machine hardware configuration, including Macs.  now i don&#8217;t really &#8220;like&#8221; windows but something must be said about an OS that can be installed with default drivers to suet the needs of over millions of different hardware configurations of the diverse PC.  it may not be perfect and sometimes it fails completely but that is quite the task to undertake.  this applies to linux as well but we&#8217;re not really talking about linux here.  Macs on the other hand won&#8217;t install on any other machine other than Mac &#8220;blessed&#8221; machines.  so much for being universal.  Mac users often tell me how great their Mac is because they can even install windows on it, well that&#8217;s because windows was coded well enough to support almost any hardware configuration.  back in the old days when Mac actually used PPC&#8217;s there was a reason for the OS to be tailored to those specific needs, but now??  come on Mac, you&#8217;re using Intel CPU&#8217;s with Intel chipsets on your motherboards!  you&#8217;re not really a Mac anymore, you&#8217;re a PC that&#8217;s been &#8220;blessed&#8221; to allow the installation of OS-X.  you should be called PCOS-X&#8217;s not Mac OS-X&#8217;s!  and at least windows went through the trouble of writing the OS from scratch, whether that was a good choice is up for debate, but Mac just used the already created UNIX.</p>
<p>the point i&#8217;m getting at here is that Mac is much more of a fascist corporation than microsoft has ever been.  actually i should probably say iFascist to comply with the trademark.  okay, so windows OS likes to bundle along &#8220;windows media player&#8221; and &#8220;internet explorer&#8221; but at least they haven&#8217;t started bundling software with other software, i.e. itunes with quicktime, or safari with itunes, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>so i&#8217;m surprised that there are more viruses etc. for windows because Mac is obviously much more of a fascist corporation that microsoft.  and as seen in this forum, the majority of mac users don&#8217;t even have any antivirus software installed, making them so easy to hack.</p>
<p>and they say windows users are closed minded.  i bet 90% of Mac users have never opened their terminal or even know what it is.</p>
<p>for shame&#8230;. for shame&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Bio</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All of you make a good point but macs dont realy have much in the way of security. Me and a mate of mine crashed all the macs on our school server just by running a mac virus that we found on the net. It took the school 3 weeks to fix them. Altho windows is still the most insecure OS ever built, (yet im running Vista now), but unless your an idiot and you just download everything of p2p then theres littlt chance you&#039;ll get a virus, asuming that you also have antivirus software. Linux is the best though. Im not going to put forth an argument because theres no point in arguing. Evrey OS is good  if you use it responsibly.


Use Linux!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All of you make a good point but macs dont realy have much in the way of security. Me and a mate of mine crashed all the macs on our school server just by running a mac virus that we found on the net. It took the school 3 weeks to fix them. Altho windows is still the most insecure OS ever built, (yet im running Vista now), but unless your an idiot and you just download everything of p2p then theres littlt chance you&#8217;ll get a virus, asuming that you also have antivirus software. Linux is the best though. Im not going to put forth an argument because theres no point in arguing. Evrey OS is good  if you use it responsibly.</p>
<p>Use Linux!</p>
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