iMac becomes infected with PC-only virus

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iMac becomes infected with PC-only virus

Post by Brendocon » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:38 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816520.stm

And I bet you all thought they were immune...
Grrr. Argh.

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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:53 pm

its good to see macs are finnaly catching up to become proper computers.
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Re: iMac becomes infected with PC-only virus

Post by Guest » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:18 pm

Brendocon wrote:And I bet you all thought they were immune...
Considering who their major software developer has been for the past couple of decades, no, not really...

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Post by Bouncelot » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:32 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:its good to see macs are finnaly catching up to become proper computers.
You mean it's easier to run Linux on them now? :p

I wonder how long it will be before somebody puts Linux, MacOS, and Windows on the same machine?

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Post by sprunkner » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:44 pm

Or until they all have a baby that takes over the world...

This is good news to me as I am a confirmed Macker.
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