This afternoon I upgraded Norton Anti-Virus (NAV) on my Mac, running OS 10.3. I upgraded to the latest version of NAV (version 10). Went through the list of viruses that NAV protected me against and the vast majority were viruses that only infected the Microsoft Windows operating system. It listed a few viruses that could infect Mac OS 7, back in the mid 1990’s.

I started looking around to find a list of current Mac OS X viruses. Symantec only listed two, and one was a “concept” virus that didn’t even exist:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sh.renepo.b.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/mp3concept.html

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