24 Oct
2016
24 Oct
'16
2:24 p.m.
Memory protection does not protect you from a virus.
It can protect other
running processes from being modified (if they belong to other users they
can't be infected at all; other processes owned by the user it's possible,
depending upon the system [1]) but that's it.
-spc
Sorry, I was thinking back to the finger file from the ID software guy
talking about how horrible MacOS was, not from the perspective of
preventing viruses.
I suppose Apple was early in the networking game with Appletalk but not
sure if the viruses ever made use of it.
( I grew up Atari -> PC )
--
Ethan O'Toole