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If I remember correctly, there's isn't any specific OS X viruses. OS X can be a carrier, in the form of forwarding on viruses manually and macro viruses that might effect Office v.X but I don't think there's been an OS X virus yet.

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To be honest it's just not an attractive target for virus writers, with the market share being the size that it is, there's not really an incentive to spend time writing a virus.

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To be honest it's just not an attractive target for virus writers, with the market share being the size that it is, there's not really an incentive to spend time writing a virus.

Also because of the BSD underpinnings. The virus must somehow get root access to be able to do any real damage to your OS/machine, other than deleting your personal files.

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To be honest it's just not an attractive target for virus writers, with the market share being the size that it is, there's not really an incentive to spend time writing a virus.

Actually, I tend to think that the very fact that OS X has never had a virus before would be a MAJOR enticement for someone to write a virus for it. That would be a rather major accomplishment. Unfortunately, according to Wickedkitten's recent post, there does appear to now be one virus for OS X.

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wow, that alone is a sure thing for anyone to switch to mac :yes:

Even the Wall Street Journal said that a while back (don't have the link for the article at the moment). :D

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As a computer user, part of the responsibility is using antivirus software. While no virus, save one, affects OS X, you can still host virii on your Mac, which can be sent to windows. IE...Word files with the macro virus. They don't affect OS X at all, but when opened in windows, the virii goes nuts. Those OS X anti virus programs check for all virii. If they only checked for OS X virii, it wouldn't be necessary.

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