On 24 October 2016 at 20:20, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote: > - Yes, classic Macs did get viruses. But as a user of a classic Mac since > 1987, I think I encountered one exactly once and my experience was not > unusual. They just weren't all that common and nearly everyone ran Virex > anyway until Mac OS 8 days when the platform had little or no relevance to > virus authors.
What, really? Wow. You were lucky! I never owned a Mac of my own 'til my "Road Apple" Performa 5200... http://lowendmac.com/1995/performa-5200/ ... in about '96, thanks to Apple's "Platform Club" for UK journos. However, in the preceding nearly-a-decade, I supported & maintained plenty of 'em. Virus infections were plentiful, by a wide variety of viruses, and there were a wide variety of anti-virus apps in use. Symantec Antivirus for Macintosh -- SAM -- was the most common commercial one, but there were others. Virex and Disinfectant were the most common freebies. There were both disk and file viruses, as well as Trojans. And when Mac Office 98 came along, there were macro viruses too. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven Skype/MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
