Apple's time has come?

[Carlos Macedo Gomes]

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 <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apple has been a target for a long time dude...
> http://milw0rm.com/platforms/osX
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> Kristian Erik Hermansen
> "Know something about everything and everything about something."
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Carlos Macedo Gomes
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