Do apple devices get viruses?

No viruses on Macs? AWESOME!!

Hey... anyone want to buy a bridge?

This is a pretty old thread and you quoted out of context, but see “There are no Mac viruses” for one expert's view of what was meant.

I can relate. I gave my PC up after half a year of owning it, but there were many I had to sit through than viruses. Since Christmas 2013 I never stopped loving my mb pro retina 15" 256gb. I can totally relate. I didn't even do any downloads on PC and had problems just by using it.

Really this would whole heartily depend on your definition of a virus. To acquire a "virus" (a local trojan horse, or key log) you must go find said virus and download it, not an easy feat by any means. You must seek out this program, which will not be easy to find as Apple invests billions in litigation, and securities, so you gotta go find it. Then you gotta install it. It doesn't sneak in with some app, or some email, you must find and install it. You can't acquire it through the app store, as every developer must have a developers license, meet Apples standards, have each app they create submitted to and then approved by Apple. So if you seek out this virus, commit yourself to installing it, the uninstall is entirely different then Windows. Where a Windows virus isn't local, it spreads out and infects many things, OS X programs are self contained and you simply uninstall the malicious application. Done, that easy. As well, software updates to the OS do have security updates, which I've seen resolve viruses in as little as a week of them having been created. This scenario is very uncommon, I've seen thousands of Apple computers with maybe 3 viruses amongst them, and I know you will try to convince yourself you are the exception to the rule, or better to be safe, if you really want to throw your money at someone that's useless (like Norton or Kaspersky) just give me your 20 dollars a year, and I"m still cheaper then those worthless programs that will only occupy your systems resources.

Yes they absolutely can and do have vulnerabilities. As can be seen with recent events (see iOS 9.3.5 and several OS X zero day exploits) this notion that Apple devices were somehow safer is wrong.

windows was and remains a much bigger target due to market share and badly updated pirated versions.

There are some features that make unix and unix-like OSs somewhat safer than Windows, but even still, there are still vulnerabilities in OS X waiting to be identified, and with each new feature and new OS, there comes with it new holes that are waiting discovery.

You sound pretty smart. Would you like to be a mentor to me?