Viruses can be made for anything. With all the hacking that has been done on the Kindle, a virus could definitely be made for it, however, is it worth the time to do it? What would you do? Brick it? And how fast could you get it to spread? probably very slow due to the number of kindles out there. Why hit thousands when you can hit millions or billions? Even though viruses hit only a small portion of a population, but due to the immense size, such as with windows users, that is still a lot of victims. Not only that, but those victims have more interactions with other potential victims, when compared to a kindle.
Also, few viruses are written for Macs, due to how few macs are out there comparatively. Yeah, there are millions out there, but it is still under 10% of the market. An infected machine needs contact with another infectable machine in order to spread the infection, and there is still few mac to mac interactions overall.
Last edited by Hellmark; 04-11-2011 at 09:47 AM.
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