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Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years by digi_owl on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:32PM (#14840640)
I think it is a holdover from the early Mac days, where a large part of the base OS was in ROM.

Thus a simple reboot would clear out any infection.

That, and over time the lack of a general market presence, is likely what lead to the belief (never mind that Apple pushed the message with their I'm a Mac ads).

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Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years by 80211 on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:04PM (#14842142)
The early mac days when there was no hard-disk, maybe. But if you inserted another floppy when the virus was in-memory, it would spread!
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