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Old 30-06-2010, 16:33   #23
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Re: Macs never get viruses

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
It's very relevant. You suggest I don't know I've never been infected, and postulate that my system could be infected by malware that wouldn't cause abnormal behaviour, such that I wouldn't know it was there.

Your entire reasoning is based on your assumption that such malware even exists for the Mac. Hence my request that you justify that assumption.
I don't see how it is relevant as I'm not claiming your system is infected I'm just pointing out that not having av your assumption that your system is clean is a pretty big stretch.
And again though I couldn't name specific examples I did name a category of virus that by its very nature does not disrupt a system because it is counter productive to the viruses goals and I can assure you that there are plenty of examples of that particular group on the mac.
However, if a name will really make you happy The Backdoor.OSX.HellRaiser virus is quite effective and it does exactly what I said earlier.
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