OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>om>: I can't think of a way for a virus to jump onto a disk on a Mac simply by the disk being there, without any virus-infected program running. Unless a virus has attacked the Finder or the OS itself, which is a possibility, I suppose. But even then, the virus can't jump *off* the disk onto a previously clean system without running something from the disk, and that won't happen unless you explicitly tell it to. If there's some way for that to happen on Windows, then Windows is definitely more virus-friendly! Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg(a)cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+