[comp.virus] Mac Virus Harmlessness

XRJDM@SCFVM.BITNET (Joe McMahon) (02/08/90)

It's interesting, but up until now, most viruses on the Mac have been
"damageless" - the only reason the cause trouble is because of bugs
and incompatabilities, not deliberately harmful code. nVIR, at worst,
causes your Mac to beep in some cases (side effects are worse -
crashes, hangs, printing failures).

Perhaps we just haven't had the right (wrong?) people writing Mac
viruses so far. Any ideas?

 --- Joe M.