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Less than for PC because mac is still only 5% of computer market, but they do exist and can do just as much harm as windows variants
http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/Macintosh_Viruses_and_Mac_Virus_Resources.htm
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who ever wrote that is an idiot. There are a handful, at most, of what could be called viruses for the Mac OS X platform. However, they are simply not as effective, and never can be, as viruses for Windows XP. This is down to the way the system is written. You have distinct layers of the OS - the user only uses the top layer of it all and has to enter passwords specifically to access anything that could be damaged.
So, due to this protection, a user would have to purposefully allow the virus onto their machine.
Secondly, the apple market is much smaller than that held by Microsoft with its Windows platform, so there is less reason to create a virus in the first place - why create something to attack Mac's when the same effort could be expended making one that attacks many more machines.
One caveat here though is that complacency is a bad idea. We should not be sitting there trusting anything and everything we come across on the net - as this may well lead to virus problems.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt's not true that macs can't get viruses, but the chances are MANY, MANY times lower than pcs.
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Does Mac get any viruses?
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Are there any ways to kill viruses on Mac without Antivirus software?
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Do Mac's get any kind of viruses?
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What are the viruses that attack Mac operating systems?
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How common is it for a Mac to get viruses?
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Do viruses eat mac and cheese?
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