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Originally Posted by chasedude
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.
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Well... most malware/trojans
are written for Windows. Because it's infinitely easier to execute malicious code that doesn't require any user input. "Drive by" infection is still not possible with OS X. Which does provide OS X with a much greater resistance to infection, and makes antivirus programs for Mac pretty much unnecessary. The last few versions of OS X actually have malware protection built in to the OS, which most people don't realize. And OS X is much better at sandboxing everything you run to prevent infection, memory leaks, permission issues, etc. I completely agree that no OS is bullet proof. But OS X should still be considered one of the safest options available.
I could write a program in about 5 minutes, that could completely destroy an OS X install. But it would also require the user to authenticate as admin to install, no different than the "malware" above. I don't think that makes me a hax0r though, and I wouldn't consider OS X to be vulnerable because the program I wrote could harm it if it were installed. Because that's just common sense. No virus or malware protection is going to protect against irresponsible stupidity like that.