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ScottStevensNZ: Fortunately, once again its economies of scale. Also, with the archtecture of OSX you would need to gain admin or SUDO privledges to be able to install anything - you would probably also need to issue an execute command for the virus from windows meaning at the very least you'd need to start up an ssh session to the mac - just like if you are trying to use a UNIX machine from windows using telnet - assuming of course you can get past the sand boxing of the virtual machine. The SSH telnet method wouldn't work with boot camp because the OSX environment isn't started - the worst you could do would be write crap to the shared drive which both OSX and Windows use. You could put an executable on it, but the user would then have to run it and provide the login credentials ...
ScottStevensNZ: all they are saying is that OSX is not capable of contracting a windows virus - aka 'PC' to use their own Mac vs PC terms
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freitasm: Actually for many non-IT-savvy they think exactly the opposite. for them a PC is anything running Windows. They make this distinction thanks to good Apple marketing and from other people perpetuating this concept.
The problem is that IT-savvy people also think like that...
maknz: If it were rephrased as
"Windows viruses cannot execute on Mac"
it would be correct.
alasta: Apple's market share in the US is now around 20% which is a huge increase on where they were ten years ago.
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