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JoeMulk

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What would the effects of a computer virus developing into a worldwide pandemic which systematically destroyed millions of computers including government computers?
 
Everyone buys a Mac. Apple continues its wild success.

"The virus is written for Macs, too."

Can't be done. UNIX doesn't allow it. OS X and the various *NIX flavors explode in popularity as the world picks up the pieces.
 

NothingNow

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What would the effects of a computer virus developing into a worldwide pandemic which systematically destroyed millions of computers including government computers?
REJOICE GROGNARDS AND NECKBEARDS FOR The Year of Linux on the Desktop is Nigh! Long have you waited, and prayed, but now the great satan shall be destroyed and the Non-beleivers cast into the pit of WIN32 for all eternity!

But yeah, Microsoft is fucked, while UNIX derivatives and clones, Apple OS (asuming this predates OSX,) and Amiga OS dominate.

It really doesn't affect anything since most Servers use a UNIX derivative, or something else that can laugh off such a feeble attack, or is at least properly secured.
 
I have my doubts about Amiga, oh sure they're good computers, but by the late 90s they were pretty much gone except for a few die-hards.
 

NothingNow

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I have my doubts about Amiga, oh sure they're good computers, but by the late 90s they were pretty much gone except for a few die-hards.

Okay, so dominate's not the right choice of word. How about Install base that isn't the laughing stock of the computer industry?
 
Okay, so dominate's not the right choice of word. How about Install base that isn't the laughing stock of the computer industry?
With no products released OTL between 1997 and 2002 I have my doubts about even this. Oh they could probably get a low-budget high-graphics niche, but that's all it would be.
 
Dudes, do you think there is NO virus for Macs or even Linux? :rolleyes:

I know an informatic student, and he chuckled at this. There IS virus for both, its just that Windows are more popular and all, so... and the 'security' of both lines may be exagerated at times. It is better on this level, but the day apples and linux os get REALLY popular, some peoples will have a BAD surprise.
 
I'd have thought writing a virus for Linux was hard, or at least making it capable of taking out everything Linux, because just remember you have three different Linux bases, Debian, Slackware and Red Hat.
 
Dudes, do you think there is NO virus for Macs or even Linux? :rolleyes:

I know an informatic student, and he chuckled at this. There IS virus for both, its just that Windows are more popular and all, so... and the 'security' of both lines may be exagerated at times. It is better on this level, but the day apples and linux os get REALLY popular, some peoples will have a BAD surprise.
The problem, though, is that any properly configured *nix server simply won't let any foreign process run, and certainly won't let it into kernel space.
 
The problem, though, is that any properly configured *nix server simply won't let any foreign process run, and certainly won't let it into kernel space.

Bah. A parade was surely found by somes, because there is some virus already from what I heard... a quite small number, but one can't say 'there is NO virus' smugly.

It's harder and less 'worthy,, but some peoples are head in the ground about this; more apples and linux, more virus one day. It's a simple matter of ecology in a way.
 
Linux is the new savior.

Trouble with that is that every IT professional now would have to back to school as the colleges heavily emphasize Windows. Where I went to college, it was drummed into us that Bill Gates was God when it came to computers.
 
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