Viruses for Windows are well documented - and a commonly used argument is “use a Mac, it’s safer” - well in the space of a week two vulnerabilities for the Mac were released. The first was a trojan horse-esque virus, designed to infect applications on Mac systems and propagate itself to users of iChat. The second was a threat to the Bluetooth protocol. In each case the actual severity of the threat is low, and in the case of the Bluetooth, users who are updated with latest patches are already secure.
But it does just go to show that virus creators are branching out. No doubt 2006 will be the year of the virus.
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