Apple Recommends Antivirus for Mac Users

Internert News ^ | December 2, 2008 | Sean Michael Kerner

[B Knotts]

Spyware and virus ware won’t run, Norten, McAffee etc.

Those aren't problems with Dell; those are problems with Windows.

Granted, it probably came with the machine...although Dell does offer Ubuntu preloaded on some machines.

[TomServo]

Excuse me while I LMAO...

[aruanan]

When a brand has, what, 7% marketshare, it is self-explanatory that it’ll have fewer third-party accessories and peripherals for something to go wrong.

Whose butt did you pull that out of? The things that go wrong most often in PCs running Microsoft, go wrong because of the OS.

[Swordmaker]

Say it ain't so !

All Right:

It ain't so!

"We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate," Apple spokesman Bill Evans, told Macworld. "The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box." Apple, Inc. December 2, 2008

Other articles show that the knowledgeBase article date was merely a normal review of an old article that has been on Apple's website since the old Mac OS days. The Washington Post's Krebs erroneously thought it was a newly posted article. It has been on the current Apple website, substantially identical to the current article, since at least 2002 and the original article number indicates it had originally been created in 1992.

[Swordmaker]

It's FUD Season... PING!

Every year, about a month before the Macworld Conference in San Francisco, the anti-Apple press brings out the FUD.

The Washington Post has found an article on Apple's website that seems to say that Mac OS X users should run 'multiple anti-virus" applications. Krebs seems to think because the KnowledgeBase article has a revision date of November 21, 2008 that it is a new article. The facts are that the article has been on Apple's site, substantially the same, since 1992 and referred originally to Mac OS, not OS X. Apple has removed the article as "old and inaccurate."

Mac FUD Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[ComputerGuy]

I feel so much better now.

[Swordmaker]

And approximately 7 percent of the market. 7 percent?!? BWAHAHAHAA!!

In the United States, the market share among consumer users, people who buy their own computers, is now about 20% and climbing.

Among all computer sales, Macs were just reported at 8.7% of all computer sales in the US... up from under 4% just three years ago.

[Swordmaker]

When a brand has, what, 7% marketshare, it is self-explanatory that it’ll have fewer third-party accessories and peripherals for something to go wrong. . . Neither is it crippled like a Mac.

What third-party accessories and peripheral are you talking about? Please tell me how my Mac is "crippled." I suggest you might not know what you are talking about. The vast majority of people who have chosen to use a Mac are familiar with BOTH Windows and Mac OSX—they know more than you do who have probably never even used a Mac—and have made an informed decision.

[dilvish]

The most vulnerable part of the computer has always been the user. As more and more people convert to Apple there will be more and more of the kind of dipwad users that made ILoveYou the most successful virus in history.

[mkjessup]

In the United States, the market share among consumer users, people who buy their own computers, is now about 20% and climbing.
Among all computer sales, Macs were just reported at 8.7% of all computer sales in the US... up from under 4% just three years ago.

My, those -are- impressive numbers.


[snicker]

[mass55th]

"Mac user for over three years now without using any virus or malware protection except my router firewall..."

Same here. I've had Macs for at least 10 years. I'm not a techno-geek. I leave that to my son. All I know is that my Macs work well without any trips to the repair shop. The one thing that's clearly missing from Free Republic are threads by Mac users requesting help. I wish I had a dollar for every thread from a PC user. I'd be rich!

[SoftballMominVA]

My daughter has that model and loves it. If you get it, add Microsoft One-Note with it. The handwriting recognition is superb and believe it or not, it operates better on Vista than on XP.

[Leonard210]

I don't think you read that correctly. Here's an article to put that in perspective for ya.

Apple may take No. 3 spot on list of U.S. computer makers

[Swordmaker]

My, those -are- impressive numbers.

It is not the numbers (which for a non-Windows computer provider ARE impressive) but the trends. Apple growth is appreciating at an average 30% year over year for the last three years... while Windows is growth is in the negative percentages, dropping below 90%.

Incidentally, I erred. The latest Mac OSX market share of sales is 8.87 percent, not 8.7% that I cited.

[antiRepublicrat]

Actually it’s 9 point something now. Windows is down to 90%, and Linux fills in that point something. Not bad for one single company’s hardware against hundreds, and they’re growing faster than any other.

[antiRepublicrat]

When a brand has, what, 7% marketshare, it is self-explanatory that it’ll have fewer third-party accessories and peripherals for something to go wrong.

I've plugged the same USB accessories, mainly marketed to the PC world, into my PC and my Mac, and they were up and running more easily on the Mac. The video converter even works better on the Mac.

[antiRepublicrat]

there will be more and more of the kind of dipwad users that made ILoveYou the most successful virus in history.

ILoveYou was enabled by Microsoft Outlook. Until then you couldn't get or spread a virus by simply viewing an email.

[dilvish]

ILoveYou needed the person to double click the icon, it didn’t spread just by viewing unless you turned on the auto-run attachments feature, and you had to turn that on that defaulted to off.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

After working on windows for 17 years, I bought my first MacBook Pro this last week. Love it. Can’t wait to move everything over and escape.

[cdbull23]