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Monday, February 20, 2006
Has the “Mac virus” struck your computer?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Attention Mac elitists: your era of virus-free superiority could be ending.
Late last week, a supposed “Mac virus” was discovered by anti-virus company Sophos that spread through the iChat program. Earlier today, another virus targeted toward Macs was discovered that could potentially spread through Bluetooth file exchange.
What gives here? Mac OS X was supposed to be all but impervious to such nonsense. Could the bullseye long focused on Windows users have finally found fresh meat?
Or is it all just propaganda from Mac haters?
Some experts predict that the situation is going to get worse for Macintosh users. Not coincidentally, these warnings are emerging just as Apple begins to ship its lustworthy new Macbook Pro with the new Intel Core Duo processor.
So Mac fans, is this slate of virus hoopla causing concern? And Windows users, is it time to gloat?
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