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Now you're telling me what I meant and what I was referring to? This has devolved into first you misunderstanding or misprepresenting, deliberately or otherwise, what I was stating. You then go into a trademarked cultist rage where you defend with righteous indignation all that is holy with the Church of Apple. (I will withhold my other psychological evaluations of you.)

I stand by what I say. You still apparently don't know what that is. There's no point in continuing this discussion as anything I say, whether clearly marked as fact or opinion, will be met with more furious pounding on the keyboard as you defend your beloved computer company (again, you are a cultist). You can preach to the other members of your church.

I mean, you're telling a person with both professional and academic credentials in Computer Science (myself) that I am not an expert on computers. You're also telling everyone that you, with your shiny economics degree, know more about malware than one of the world's foremost computer security companies.

I won't lie and I say I really took you seriously before, but you may (or may not, as it is) realize that the way you act and what you say is a very good way to be laughed off the stage yourself.

I mean, you're telling a person with both professional and academic credentials in Computer Science (myself) that I am not an expert on computers.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. You seem to have been educated beyond your means.

You're also telling everyone that you, with your shiny economics degree, know more about malware than one of the world's foremost computer security companies.

Would a computer security company have any reason to spread FUD? Would it perhaps scare some folks into buying their products? Are they smarter than the millions of us who run naked on a Mac with no bad consequences? As SM said, OSX warns us before we open a suspicious package.

I won't lie and I say I really took you seriously before, but you may (or may not, as it is) realize that the way you act and what you say is a very good way to be laughed off the stage yourself.

Are you familiar with projection? It is probably not taught in computer science class but it is taught in the behavior sciences. SM warned you to stop digging but you persist. My advice is that you avoid these threads in the future. SM handed you your hat but you still insist on displaying your shiny pate.

I mean, you're telling a person with both professional and academic credentials in Computer Science (myself) that I am not an expert on computers. You're also telling everyone that you, with your shiny economics degree, know more about malware than one of the world's foremost computer security companies.

I do, when they are trying to pull the wool over the consumer's eyes to SELL them something they do not need... especially when they have TURNED OFF built in protections with their software so they CAN FIND SOMETHING and COUNT other things that cannot infect your machine and trumpet them as if they were somehow a danger! How ignorant do you have to be to not understand that???

You do GREAT cut and past... but you do not understand what you are cutting and pasting. It's that simple, Flintsilver7. I've dealt with your type before. You've never used a Mac so you really don't know.

I won't lie and I say I really took you seriously before, but you may (or may not, as it is) realize that the way you act and what you say is a very good way to be laughed off the stage yourself.

Those who use Macs are not laughing... only you who haven't. All I can tell you is our experience does NOT match with the FUD. As Galileo said... still, it moves. You are the blind one. Look at what Sophos itself published in its "Apple Mac malware: A short history (1982-2010):" After the introduction of OSX, Flintsilver, they were HARDPRESSED to come up with a list of 22 candidates... and the only real threats were Trojans. Apple addressed that by building in Trojan recognition capability at the core level. To get their Sophos AV to even FIND any Mac malware, they were forced to turn off that system level defense and allow that malware to be downloaded so that the Sophos AV COULD intercept it! That is despicable.

Sophos sees their Windows business flagging as Microsoft improves its Windows' core system's defenses... and is looking for another market to keep itself afloat... and wants to scare a large 55 million strong market of Mac users into using their product so they can sell its Commercial Sophos Mac AV to businesses with the same fear when they can point to finding Mac malware.