{"id":1673,"date":"2003-08-29T05:02:41","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T19:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/29\/mac-viruses\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:20:26","slug":"mac-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/29\/mac-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13597,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/vil.nai.com\\\/vil\\\/default.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060320044133\\\/http:\\\/\\\/vil.nai.com\\\/VIL\\\/default.asp&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:12:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:12:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13598,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/editorial\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/29.1.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20221203091407\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/editorial\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/29.1.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:12:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:12:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13599,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cynics.info\\\/laments\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/i_sleep_better_with_a_mac.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/vil.nai.com\/vil\/default.asp\" title=\"Network Associates\">Network Associates Virus Information Library<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Out of 71,000 known viruses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;579 are known to affect the Macintosh.<\/p>\n<p>Of those 579&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;553 are Microsoft Word macro viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 26 viruses that are left&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;all 26 affect only the classic Mac OS &#8212; System 9 and prior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are <em>zero<\/em> known Mac OS X viruses or worms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/editorial\/2003\/08\/29.1.shtml\" title=\"Mac Viruses By The Numbers - Word Macro: 553, Classic Mac: 26, OS X: Zero\">The Mac Observer<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynics.info\/laments\/2003\/08\/i_sleep_better_with_a_mac.html\" title=\"Cynic's Lament: I sleep better with a Mac\">Jim<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are zero known Mac OS X viruses or worms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}