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> Actually, you are wrong. I know of several Apple fanboys who claim Apple products are not vulnerable to viruses yada yada yada. Over the years, I have known many of them, and they were all Apple fans, contrary to your claims.

Well, we have to be careful about our terms.

There are lots of malware types that are erroneously called viruses -- Trojans, email scams, phishing scams, keyloggers, etc. etc.

A true virus is self-sustaining, self-replicating malware that attacks the OS, inserts itself somewhere, does stuff, and then spreads itself without human help. That's what a computer virus is.

There are no "true viruses" in the wild for OS-X. There are a few laboratory curiosities, and there have been claims, but they always turn out to be something else that needs a human to download or install or replicate.

There certainly are a good number of human-vectored non-virus malwares that attack folks using OS-X. Call them something else, but they're not really viruses. It's a specific technical term, when used correctly. Do you call your car's engine a "wheel"? Okay, so don't call other types of malware a "virus".

Let's agree on this -- Apple fanboys got way too cocky years ago and some of that crap talk hasn't died out, so there probably are some die-hards who spout nonsense. There are some of those in every camp, why not in Apple's camp too.

But although they would be full of shit if they were saying Apple products are not vulnerable to malware -- that's clearly false -- they would be ALMOST correct if they are being specific about true viruses, because no one has built a successful one yet.

Why "almost"? Because it's always possible somebody will. So to claim invulnerability into the future is silly, and they shouldn't do it.