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Apple and virus troubles can be real these days.
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Yes, it started as MacDefender, then changed names to MacSecurity and now it's MacProtector.... as if changing names is going to fool anyone!
At the most it's an annoyance or nuisance, nothing more.
No, it's not just an opinion. It's fact.
You should take your own advice and stop singing the "same old song" that there are new threats to Mac OS X. They may be named something different, but they're still trojans or wannabe trojans that require the user to install them before they can cause any problems. Instead of trying to find examples of some new threat, why not "read some of this stuff with an open mind" and realize that, as of today, the only threats that exist that can affect Mac OS X are ignorant or careless users, since the only malware that currently exists requires the user to install and activate it. If a virus is ever released into the wild that affects Mac OS X, rest assured you will hear about it all over the web.
The only defense needed at this time to protect Mac OS X is an informed, careful, thoughtful user.
Anyway, there have been twenty four thousands viruses for Mac OS X in public circulation, Apple just had enough money to quiet all the voices and delete every reference to it, thus uninformed users like GGJstudios don't know better. Anyway, Apple will soon release this post via one of their viruses I guess.
Off to purchase Norton. Or Kaspersky, whichever is more expensive.
Off to purchase Norton. Or Kaspersky, whichever is more expensive.
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Crap...even this forum MacRumors has page after page talking about the threat to OS X. This talk about what to call it means nothing.....call it a threat to you computer. It seem I get all the bad mouthing...........but all these others are telling you the same stuff. It's real and very soon there will be enough happing that all of us will know it. But i don't expect anyone to say Choctaw you were right we are getting hit. But that's OK...just read all these comments right here in the MacRumors forum.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1146178/
Crap...even this forum MacRumors has page after page talking about the threat to OS X. This talk about what to call it means nothing.....call it a threat to you computer. It seem I get all the bad mouthing...........but all these others are telling you the same stuff. It's real and very soon there will be enough happing that all of us will know it. But i don't expect anyone to say Choctaw you were right we are getting hit. But that's OK...just read all these comments right here in the MacRumors forum.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1146178/
There is a threat, but said threat is still dependent on users taking an active role in creating the threat. Call me when malware can install itself without user intervention.
Do you think thats the only way it becomes a problem? Do you think that Windows users are getting infected through self replicating viruses?
Ill tell you the answer: Most/almost all users infect themselves.
That is not the only way it becomes a problem, however, since Windows can get a virus without any user action, and a Mac cannot, it is not a problem yet. BTW, user created problems will always exist. Nothing can fix or prevent that.
There are a LOT of Mac users, many of them new Mac users, who came from the Windows world, where malware is pervasive. They think they'll encounter the same thing with Macs, but it's simply not true. That's why you see so much posted about malware.
As for the MacDefender issue, I don't know how many times it needs to be said before you finally get it: The user is the only threat. If the user doesn't actively install it, nothing happens. Period.
It is NOT a threat, unless the user installs it.
Because you seem determined to ignore the fact that a Mac OS X user has complete control over what malware affects their computer, without the need for antivirus software. There are no Mac OS X threats in the wild, except those threats that the user must actively allow.
No one has said Macs would never be "hit" with malware. The doomsday gloom-and-doomers have been saying that for the past 10 years and nothing has changed so far since Mac OS X was released: there are no viruses and only a few trojans that a wise user can easily avoid.
Rather than just post links or refer to other threads, why don't you actually read them and understand that there is NO threat but the user's own ignorance or carelessness. The "malware" (and it's not even malware) does absolutely nothing at all without the user's involvement.
Ever notice how the defendant in a murder trial is never the gun, but rather a person? That's because guns don't kill people; people kill people. A gun cannot harm a person, unless a person uses it to do so. In the same way, the Mac OS X malware threats that exist in the wild cannot harm a Mac, unless a Mac user uses it to do so. Get it?
Have fun with your Bios, I'll stick with the EFI on my macbook pro.
I love when people toss around jargon with no idea about what it is or how it works, I need a laugh now and then.
We get this every year. And we're no closer to that massive ocean of malware for the Mac than we were nearly a decade ago.
Every year someone uncovers something that barely anyone sees and that doesn't really do anything. There's a lot of press for a little while, a lot speculative BS, and then it all dies down when we figure out the same things as the year prior: It's insignificant and you can still click on all the porn you want and never be affected by anything more than horrible Flash performance.
Every year someone uncovers something that barely anyone sees and that doesn't really do anything. There's a lot of press for a little while, a lot speculative BS, and then it all dies down when we figure out the same things as the year prior: It's insignificant and you can still click on all the porn you want and never be affected by anything more than horrible Flash performance.
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Yes I get what you are saying........and you do a good job of explaining your position. I suppose you will keep on thinking that way.......until Mac's get infected in shipment without anyone doing anything. LoL
You'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath until then. Come back when you have some factual information to support your baseless claims. I won't hold my breath for that, either.
You mean the Macs will infect themselves with malware they written themselves?
If it has gotten this far, I suppose Windows PC will be suicide terrorists.
I do remember a mac virus shutting down the SFSU MMSE lab. Of course that was like 1996 or so? There have been some malware/trojans that target the Mac platform. After all it is pretty easy to make a rogue DNS out of a mac. It even has Apache, PHP etc already installed even if they are out of date by a tad .
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