Does anyone get these viruses on their MAC?
I sincerely doubt it. But Swordmaker is the Apple guy here on FR.
I prefer Linux. :)
Nope. Over the last eight years, there are only about 10 Trojan applications running around that some pundits have called viruses for OSX... but the vulnerabilities that they exploited have long since been closed.
Better than half of them, like Inqtana-A&B, used already closed vulnerabilities that Apple itself announced after they had closed them.
Even when they were "vulnerabilities" to exploit, a Mac user had to go to extraordinary lengths to get infected. One highly touted "Mac Virus," LeapA or OompaA, took two computer security specialists, two Mac software engineers, and two hardware guys over six hours merely to get it to copy itself from one Mac to another... and then malware payload didn't work.
You said — “Does anyone get these viruses on their MAC?”
Nope, they don’t..., which is the real nice thing about running Mac OS X. Get one and forget about these nasty bugs and/or other malware...
And..., by the way, if you need to, you can run Windows at the same time that you’re running the Mac OS X. It’s a nice procedure, to have a Windows program running inside of Mac OS X (if you really want to do that...).