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Old 04-05-2012, 10:02 AM   #279
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Originally Posted by chasedude View Post
You Apple people think you're safer than the rest of us eh? 1/2 million systems hit with malware, most in US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17623422
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.
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