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This chapter examines a further personal computer system which has been heavily afflicted by computer viruses, namely the Apple Macintosh. It shows the significant differences caused by the resource based abstract structure of Macintosh object files, and the complexity of the system initialisation sequence. The other two primary targets of virus writers (the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga) are also mentioned briefly.
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Ferbrache, D. (1992). Apple Macintosh Viruses. In: A Pathology of Computer Viruses. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1774-2_6
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