Mac FUD Ping!
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Posted on 07/23/2008 9:51:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker
As more and more PC users switch to Macs, they're bringing viruses and other malicious software with them
When Apple beat Wall Street expectations convincingly on Monday after its best quarter ever, its share price fell. Financial analysts were worried about Apple's once stellar profit margins, the health of its irreplaceable chief executive, Steve Jobs, and fears that a slowing global economy will mean weaker sales of iPods, iPhones and MacBooks.
Amid this uncertainty, a different type of analyst told me of another troubling development for Apple, one that is probably not yet written into any financial models: Apple is beginning to attract the attention of hackers and malware writers.
A big factor in Apple's success in selling 2.5 million computers last quarter is growing user disaffection with Windows. Everything from recurring Vista headaches to security fears are driving Windows users into the Mac camp. Ironically, the resulting Mac sales are coinciding with – and causing – a new upsurge in malware written specifically for Apple users.
(Excerpt) Read more at technology.timesonline.co.uk ...
"Apple will be hoping that it doesn't grow large enough to alarm the financial analysts."
Somehow, I Doubt that Apple is worried about growing too large...
"Ironically, the resulting Mac sales are coinciding with – and causing – a new upsurge in malware written specifically for Apple users."
It is??? Where is this "upsurge?"
It's FUD!
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Anyhow, yes, I do this on a regular basis for emails I suspect to be virii, spyware, etc. Just the geek in me trying to have fun.
This is nonsense. In order for malware to be written for the Mac, one would have to create malware that would work on Unix - not an easy task.
As someone (Jean-François Revel?) quipped about the dark night of fascism: always descending on America, yet always landing on Europe.
I'm assuming that you've got a Windows host. AVG is probably scanning anything coming across the wire for patterns it knows. Even though the data was destined for your VM, it still had to come across the physical interface.
Mark
Before Vista, Windows was a two-story outhouse of shitty code jerry-rigged on top of DOS. Many programs STILL didn't run right without administrator privileges, even a decade after Microsoft promised to make this a thing of the past. Vista is more secure but this comes at a terrible price in usability. It is still crapware.
Every hacker in the world could attack OS X and it would still be safer than Bill Gates' heap of steaming dung.
-ccm
How interesting because I got a call from my bank last night re an online hacker on Monday having access to my account.
Oh, and now when I try to go online (to eBay, for example) I get a message that my “browser does not accept cookies”. Can anyone tell me what’s happened?
Someone - quick - send me some Apple malware. My computing life is way too simple and boring without it...
I’m waiting....
Anyone????
Anyone home????......
The biggest security risk for a Macintosh user is to install Windows...
chrp... Chrp... Chrp... Chrp...
Don’t you just love the sound if crickets in the morning?
Well I’m glad that I can surf porn sites and bit torrent without worrying! /sarcasm (at least for me)
As much as I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about all that, there is just something in me that grins and says bring it on when I imagine Apple viruses (that actually make into the wild.)
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