thanks for a straightforward non defensive answer, I being a XP user am of course aware of the “security” scams out there, just didn’t see Apple users getting suckered.
. . . which is precisely why I’m grateful to Swordmaker for pinging out calm, reasonable, well-informed responses to scams like MacKeeper. I once fell victim (albeit not painfully) to a social engineering attack on my PC. Why did I sucker for it? Because I was worried sick about viruses. Why didn’t I just run an antivirus program? I tried. It was such insufferable bloatware - and I was perforce using dialup at the time - that it was simply unworkable.Understanding that OS X is Unix, and that Unix, as a multitasking multiuser OS was inherently far more sophisticated and robust than DOS, or for that matter any single-user OS, I leapt at the chance to buy a G4 iMac, and I had confidence in it.
But although Jim Robinson would absolutely never intentionally host malware of any sort, the envy (or whatever you call it) of certain PC users who were suffering with the inherently vulnerable DOS/Windows which had the imprimatur of
IBM as cover for its inadequacy has resulted in FUD being posted on the Internet and picked up by FR posters. The result has been de facto social engineering attacks having the effect of suggesting that I should sucker for something like MacKeeper. Swordmaker has been a voice of sanity reassuring me that my instincts were right about resisting the Trojan Horse threat in the only possible way - by ignoring it. I’m really glad Swordmaker enjoys helping us.
Have you contributed to FR this quarter?