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Why is apple less prone to viruses?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 6/23/2022

Modern Mac OSs are based on Linux. Linux is not prone to virus attack because executable files cannot affect other files unless they can get permission. If you were to change ownership of all of your system files and run as administrator you might get a virus that could damage your system but, since that is unlikely, nobody has bothered to write code that will exploit that situation.

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