Computer viruses!

[keavin]

thanks crew!!!

[jazzyvee]

When I first had my mac laptop, the store advised me to get norton/symantec anti-virus and firewall software. It slowed the computer down so much that in the end after searching the net I realised I didn't really need it. So i un-installed it and have not had any viral attacks even after getting the same emails that my windows friends have had catastrophe's with.
 
Accepting macs are less vulnerable to virus attack, is that still the same situation for being hacked into?
Are macs just as vulnerable as pc's in that respect?

[hankster]

They are vulnerable, to a hacker with good knowledge of Linux and Mac OS.  The highest vulnerability arises if you login as root and then access the internet, since it is in that file that the greatest hacker vulnerability of the system resides.  But generally they are vulnerable.  The biggest thing they have going for them in that regard is the relatively low number of hackers with much interest or knowledge of the Mac world.