Bwahahaha!
Nobody recommends antivirus software for linux operating systems.
The Trojan requires user permission to install. A program can do just about anything if you give it permission. Trojans are designed to get into the system by deceiving the user, not the system, so they're more social engineering than system engineering.
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.
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."
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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.
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.
Here’s what Apple said about this...
“’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.’”
Now, I can confirm that over about 22 years of my use of Apple Macintosh computers, and using all sorts of data, from floppies, to hard drives (when they finally came out), to bulletin boards (back when they were popular), using modems, and later the Internet (when that became cheaper and affordable), to exchanging a lot of data in many different ways, over many generations of machines and many different operating system upgrades and revisions — that in *all that time* and *all that usage* (which was extensive and continuous) — that I *only ever found one virus* — and that was back in 1990 — *only* one — ever....
My own personal usage was such that I would have several models of the Macintosh at one time, be continuously changing and upgrading and many of my friends swore I would have a computer attached to me, if I could... LOL. I’m sure that the majority of people don’t even use their computers as much as I do (and did). So, others would run into *less viruses* than I did — on the Macintosh (and that was *only one* for me). Many people on the Macintosh don’t know what the “big deal” is about — concerning viruses. They’ve never had any problems or concern about it.
And my “results” (concerning viruses) was from my first beginnings and all the way up to the present. And..., I’ve continuously run anti-virus software from way-back when, too..., although it’s *not* been necessary. I’ve gone through several different versions and companies that made it. I had Virex at one time and now have Intego.
But, I really don’t think it’s doing me any good and I don’t think it’s every done me any good... LOL...
I don’t get any alarms (and haven’t in the past), although one time I got a couple of e-mails that alerted me to a Windows virus — which does *absolutely nothing* on a Macintosh computer.
The Apple spokesman is right, the Macintosh computers are built secure from the “git-go”... You really don’t have to worry — at all — about viruses or worms or any of that stuff with Macintosh. It’s a *non-starter* and will probably continue that way for a very log time.
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Get a Mac and you won’t have to be concerned about viruses. It’s the answer from over 22 years of experience...
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