It's not OS X (or Linux) but... The first PC virus' were on the Apple II platform back in 1981/82: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872842.html http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/16/1330207 I graduate (BS in CompEngr) from Texas A&M in '96 so I became familiar w/ this bit of history way back when during my studnet and FidoNet SysOp days/daze. If you wanna see something real "interesting" check this out: - Growth of Malware http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/growth-of-malware.html - 2007: The year of the 9999 vulnerabilities? http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/weblogs/pmeunier/general/post-72/ - the CVE 10K problem http://cve.mitre.org/data/board/archives/2007-01/msg00000.html ymmv, C.G. On 1/28/08, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > Apple has been a target for a long time dude... > http://milw0rm.com/platforms/osX > -- > Kristian Erik Hermansen > "Know something about everything and everything about something." > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- powerofprimes@gmail.com Carlos Macedo Gomes _sic itur ad astra_ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss