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From: edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virus on the Mac?
Message-ID: <1729@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 00:23:35 GMT
References: <1056@hubcap.UUCP> <340@ttrdf.UUCP>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Lines: 38
Summary: Viruses

In article <340@ttrdf.UUCP>, fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen ) writes:
> > Was this a freak accident or are there virus programs out there which
> > attack macs?  
> 
> There are many known viruses for PCs. Is your Mac
> located near a PC? A PC virus could possibly be 
> carried out of the PC through it's exhaust fan and 
> then infect your Mac!
> 
> Actually, the chances of this happening are pretty
> slim, because even if the virus somehow found it's
> way out of the PC (these viruses can be pretty tricky
> little fellows), it would have to go through some
> sort of genetic transformation in order to infect
> such a radically different species as the Mac.
>
The best way to avoid such viruses is to practice SAFE DOWNLOADING
I do this by wrapping my modem in Saran-Wrap before connecting to
any BBS. :-)