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March 27, 2005
Virus Schmirus

Nice writeup, Rosyna! Sorry for the new post, I wrote too much to fit comfortably into a comment.

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Be on the lookout a lot of virii and malcious code is headed your way in the future as the mac userbase
increases

Posted by: Bonkers on March 28, 2005 5:36 AM

Viruses. The plural of virus is viruses. "Virii" is the latin plural of the non-word "virius". "Viri" is the latin plural of "vir" (man).

Posted by: Clay on March 28, 2005 7:52 AM

Bonkers, I think your missing the point. OSX is more secure than windows. OSX gaining market share is gonna make it more attractive to virus writers, but whether they're successful is another matter. For one, viruses are harder to write for OSX and for another it's even harder to write a virus that deletes an entire HD.

And if market share is proportional to the number of viruses then how come Linux has so many more viruses than OSX ;)

Posted by: Pilky on April 3, 2005 5:24 AM

Bonkers, did you read the article at all?!

Posted by: skimpson on April 3, 2005 6:56 PM

Let's see.. some Latin words with an i in their stem have two i's if they are dative. In this use, it was in the nominative case, so you would be right.

--Sam

Posted by: Sam on April 3, 2005 8:44 PM

I found spyware which actually works in OS X, after people got alerted at forums etc, they silently "pulled it" with a new version.

Won't use name but it was similar to TopMoxie and coded in pure java. No, not any of opensource stuff at source forge.

Posted by: Ilgaz on April 19, 2005 3:00 AM