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2011-06-02 , 00:58
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Originally Posted by volt View Post
Even if your system was wide open for attacks, but only 1% of the net users used it, and if someone did want to write a worm for it, chances are that it'd still be hard to get it distributed. You've gotta, like, find one of them machines to be able to infect it.

Also, whoever writes them virii must really want to go for that specific group to pick a 1% segment.

This is simple logic and says nothing about Mac security, market share or virus availability, which I don't care to go into detail on since that's a fight without logic and facts.
It's indeed an interesting topic. You have a small population, a "niche" platform. We should in fact expect less viruses to be developed and to actually infect these machine a priori. But someone might be interested in doing it, and not only develop the virus but have the trouble to cause the infection. One excellent example of this happening was the Stuxnet virus!!

Now this is this in-topic? Well, we are a niche, and Nokia's Linux tablets, not to say their campaigns like the leaked Jessie's Girl video are the viruses!... Do you think their efforts are in touch with our specificity? And how many of us are immune to other diseases like Android or iPhone?