John Rodgers wrote:
"... this So-Big virus
just places a program for spammers on the machine,
useable later, thus
making every PC it infects a potential spamming
machine. Mac's
included."

As you say, this and most viruses are simply nefarious
programs which run on your machine. But as you
probably know, any program (say, a Quicken
checkbook-balancing thingy) written to run on the
Windows environment will not run on a Mac, nor vice
versa. Hence the immunity of Macs to most common
viruses.

I suspect this is mainly by dint of Macs' relative low
popularity in the field, and viruses written for them,
and is not due to any inherent platform superiority.
But I won't let that stop me from assuming a certain
self-satisfied air of smugness ...

Jeffrey Earl
'83 diesel Westfalia
'01 Apple Macintosh G4

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