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Originally Posted by KC Fish
Ahhh... another "Macs get viruses too!" scare.
 ... and conveniently the only source for this is a small virus program vendor who doesn't bother explaining how he calculated those numbers. What a strange coincidence that the source informing us of this is also trying to sell us a product to fix it...
Anyway.. This is a little deceiving...
To get infected with this, a user must download a 3rd party application, provide administrator credentials, and actually install the application. So that's technically not malware, that's considered downloading a program that you don't know, and manually installing a program you don't know even after an "Are you sure?" admin confirmation. Anyone dumb enough to do that, on any OS platform, shouldn't have admin credentials in the first place and deserves a lesson in computer responsibility. |
I agree being an informed user would prevent this from installing on their system. Yet the number of the uninformed usually outweighs intelligent users.
My main point I was trying to get across is no OS is safe anymore. Apple users thought they were bullet proof because most malware/trojans are meant for the more popular Windows system.
I just hooked up avast on my mobile and it's caught a couple hidden in some apps I wanted to try.