Mac fanboys say they’re not susceptible to virus attacks.
Geez. Don’t you guys ever get tired of trolling? No Mac fanboys say that any more (at least, not in the last 10 years). Just you guys, trolling. You’re tiresome in the extreme; can you please ADD something to the conversation for a change?
“Mac fanboys say they’re not susceptible to virus attacks.”
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Just as Moths are drawn to the light for reasons they don’t understand, so Apple Haters are irresistibly attracted to threads related to Apple products to mindlessly vent. They can not help themselves overcome this powerful compulsion drawing them in.
A computer virus or worm is a self-replicating, self-transmitting, self-installing, self-running application that can invade a computer without participation by the user or the intent of the user. There have been exactly SEVEN computer virus candidates for Apple Mac OS X in the last twelve years. Every single one of those virus candidates has failed for the same reason. . . they failed for lack of a via led vector to spread. All of them. Ergo, Spirochete, as of the almost sixteen years that OS X has been in the wild, it has been shown to be essentially completely resistant to computer viruses and worms.
That does NOT mean there is no malware out there for OS X. There are now 58 known Trojan Horse application variants for OS X in eight specific families. A Trojan is merely an application, a program, that does something different than what the user who installs it expects it to do, usually malignant. The only computer that is NOT susceptible to a trojan is one that cannot have programs added to it. However, Mac OS X'S Operating System will automatically recognize all known families of OS X Trojans and their variants regardless how they're hidden in files, and warn users if they attempt to download, install, or run one of them. For a user to install a Trojan on a Mac requires truly industrial strength stupidity in a person also knows the Administrators user name and password to over ride the warnings and install it anyway.
Compare those seven wanna-be worms and viruses and 58 Trojans to the over 3.5 million viruses, worms, and Trojans, not to mention ad-ware and other malware that still infests the Windows universe. . . and tell me if there is some justification to the claims.