atw: Re: PC protection

Ha!  Oh you bet they do, Attila (G)!

It's just that Macs are not such a high profile / mass market machine as the
MS PC in Australia.

(Although they have infested the US and British movie and TV scenes with
obvious "product placement" for years.)

Macs have suffered from virus attacks since the late 1980s, not long after
the first Amiga virus (the SCA or Swiss Cracking Association virus, for
which someone developed a really funky little animated checker cleaner
that searched and cleansed your floppy drive to the strains of some
dramatic music) appeared on the Amiga, circa 1987.

If you want to know more about your Mac, it is time to join a User Group.

For a start, you can find the Apple (Mac) Users' Society of Melbourne
(AUSOM) @ <http://www.ausom.com.au/> with a page of links to all sorts
of useful Mac oriented sites @ <http://www.ausom.com.au/links.html>,
including Mac User Groups closer to you, troubleshooting sites, articles
and advice.

But, as us Amiga owners with hardware based Motorola 68000 series CPU
Macintosh (AMAX & AMAX II card) emulators used to say, the slowest way
to run Macintosh ...is on a Macintosh.

Then again, the build room manager at Digital Ideas (RIP and Print systems
developers) used to say that "The best way to shut down a Macintosh is with
a baseball bat".

Now that would stop any Mac spyware in its tracks!  ;-)

HTH (Elizabeth Fullerton).

Regards,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas

At 10:03 24/9/2004, you wrote:
>To my knowledge Macs don't get infected?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elizabeth
>Fullerton
>Sent: Friday, 24 September 2004 9:04 AM
>To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: atw: Re: PC protection
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>This is all very interesting. Can anyone recommend anti spyware for Mac?

Michael E. Granat
Qualified Good Tech Writer Dude
Fellowship Of The Ring Of Tech Writers, Yeah Baby!
T/as Write Ideas
E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/>
Without Prejudice.
E&OE.


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