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.
As a general rule I don’t cut and paste anything. When I do, it will be explicitly cited as such.
First, I have used Apple products dating back to the Apple IIc when I was all of about six years old. I still use them on occasion, though as I have said repeatedly over the years my main machines are Linux and Windows.
Second, the Sophos software is free. They are not trying to sell you anything. In their own words they’re trying to increase brand awareness.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/12/free-mac-anti-virus-we-just-cant-win/
Lastly, there is zero indication that the Sophos software in any way allows malware in that otherwise wouldn’t be. That would make the Sophos software malware itself. You’re making claims that Sophos disables built-in protection to expose the machine to malware and there is no evidence of that that I can find. I am willing to listen if you can provide any real evidence of this (and I’m sure the competitors of Sophos are as well).
http://www.securemac.com/sophos-anti-virus-review.php