On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:19:58 +0200, Erik Richard Sørensen, kml.ers@MAIL1.STOFANET.DK, wrote: >Hei Ben > >That is not correct! - Remember the time, when WordPerfect was _the_ >wordprocessor in the big struggle/battle with Microsoft Word 5.x? - There >was still a lot more vira for the MSWD than for the WPfct - and still 99.9% >of all these vira were/are only on the Wintel platform.... > >This has nothing to do with marketshare, but with the ease of accessing and >destroying through the way that the programs are built. - But of course >more copies might be infected, because there are more copies around. > >Cheers, Erik Richard It was just a theory. But I do suspect that similar havoc could be wreaked on the Mac platform with AppleScripts as can be done with the macros in MS - after all, you have to run the macros in MS to allow the virus to work. How many people would double click an applescript if you sent one to them? But there's no real point in writing a virus for the Mac because there isn't a large enough population to allow it to spread very far. Ben -- Benjamin Cramer Geological Sciences, Rutgers University Wright Geological Laboratory 610 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 ph: (732)445-0688 / fax: (732)445-3374
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