Posted on 04/05/2012 8:45:23 AM PDT by null and void
Better warm up the popcorn popper. This ought to be interesting.
Now I seem to recall at least a half dozen people telling me that Macs are superior to PCs in part because Macs don’t get viruses. Then I would tell them that it only appears so because most computers are PCs and hence most, but not all, malware is targeted at PCs.
Downloading security update now.
How can you tell? I am a MAC user and keep my software updates checked daily..what was your experience?
Hi, Nully!
MACS were safer because Windows dominated and relatively few miscreants in Pakistan or the Ukraine wasted their time writing malware for them.
Recent technological developments have changed this.
Hi CG, long time no see.
No overt symptoms, did recently download Flash player updates, and machine hasn’t quite felt right lately.
Just installed the latest Apple updates, seems a bit better...
bump - thanks.
How is that possible? MACs aren’t like Windows machines in that if you’re not careful, you’re logging in under the admin account.
Last time I messed with a MAC, I seem to remember that you get a pop up asking you to put in the admin password if you’re doing any task that require rights. Now if you got the dialog box and entered the admin password during normal operations, you blew it. No amount of security in the world will help any user who blindingly inputs their admin pw.
Interesting article!
Laughing my tookis off at the fools.....
Yeah people get that popup and provide their password without bothering to find out what they’re allowing. The biggest security hole is always the people, that’s why trojans are the most successful form of malware, the hole a virus uses will eventually get patched, there is no patch for the click happy human hole.
Looks like it finally caught up to the Macs...as I knew it would.
MACs aren’t like Windows machines in that if you’re not careful, you’re logging in under the admin account.How does that work? I have absolutely never accidentally logged in as admin under Windows.
Yep. Even the best of us will occasionally get stupid.
After I ran :
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
I got:
/Users/Shared/.libgmalloc.dylib
That normal ?
On some level they still probably agreed to something. Most of the malware in the PC world comes with browser toolbars.
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