Posted on 05/20/2011 4:59:09 PM PDT by Swordmaker
In liberal-land, refusing to acknowledge the existence of an issue is the ultimate ecstasy of power.
I don't believe it... I certainly don't see that. Nor do I see the pop-up in my browsing..
I think we are seeing FUD season...
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It is humorous that a bunch that considers themselves to be so enlightened worship pieces of plastic, pieces of plastic that require Apple evangelists to push.
Interesting Fact: In marketing surveys used to single out groups willing to pay huge premiums for hyped name brands, two of the main questions are:
1) Do you listen to NPR?
2) Do you own any Apple products?
Macs used to have “security through obscurity”.
Now they have “obscurity for security”.
So did Toyota.
Obscurity! Hahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!
Those that have no clue make clueless comments (and they are almost all MicroSuck customers!). I didn't pay too much for my computers. I probably did pay too much for my last Big Mac!
But, those children don't rally like to admit they made a mistake and bought a system that WILL be susceptible to viruses and trojans and need to buy lots of software to fight against it. Unfortunately, few succeed like Apple...
I believe you’re right. We haven’t seen any evidence of anything like this in our district, and we have thousands of macs. In order for this to be anything like true, I should be seeing this garbage, but I’m not. Also, wouldn’t this sort of “instruction” be showing up for those who are Apple-certified techs, as well as the geniuses? FUD. Whether someone is a fan of Apple, or a fan of Windows or Linux, this just does not present truth.
The Windows Defender infection (the WinDoh!s version, iow) really sucks, but gets installed because some nimmy clicks on one of those idiotic “your machine is infected” hoax ads. Whomever wrote it, updates it, and/or distributes it through those hoax ads should be executed without trial, Middle Ages style (shown their entrails before they’re given the axe).
I got one a couple days ago when I clicked on a picture on Google. MacScan identified it, but couldn’t delete it. It just downloaded a zip file did not install, but hid in the trash, I used tinker tool to empty trashes, seems to have deleted it. MacOSX...... Something should have made note of the name I guess.
I have never bought any security software for windows (I use free), and all of my computers have been discards from other people, including this 10 year old one that is my current computer.
People don’t “need” to buy security software.
Is this like the Ron Paul approach to computer security? Hide under the covers and pretend it isn’t there?
Soooo...
How do I detect it? Remove it?
Yes. I’ve had IT guys tell me the stuff distributed by the ISPs work fine. I’d used Norton in the past, but it always blew itself up within a couple years.
The good news is I was able to have my Sister take care of the problem within 5 minutes of her mentioning it to me during a phone call, as it was a variant of 'Mac Defender', and I had read about that earlier (thanks Swordmaker).
So it's out there, but it requires some work on the part of the user for it to get installed, and therefore indicates that some folks need some <sigh> retraining on basic computer security.
I call BS. I am on the net pretty much 12 hours a day and I have yet to run across this so-called malware. Besides, you have to agree to install the crap sheesh.
So the question is... How long before this backfires in Apple’s face? Just stupid! To pretend Malware does not exist is equivalent to Apple claiming the world is flat.
Needless to say, by depending on discarded computers I have become expert at cleaning them up considering that it is the malware that got them into my hands in the first place.
Malware really works out for me, their computers get slow and glitchy, so they buy new and I move up.
When you don’t care about the contents of the drives, it’s amazing what you can do to cleanse viruses. Wipe the drive, march 1s and 0s across the drive, and start from scratch. Simple, really. Its when really nasty viruses cause hardware damage...ah, there’s the rub.
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