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How’s Mac’s security software? Can you use AVG in their pc and notebooks?
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It sounds like it. At the same time, we haven’t seen a single incident here, and we’ve quite a few macs, professionally speaking.
I think I recall someone posting here a while back a quote from a hacker along the lines that Apple was safe for a long time only because of an unwritten code among hackers they don’t go after machines they use and also, Apple wasn’t part of enough infrastructure (Banks, Industry, etc) to make it worth it. The more prolific it becomes, the bigger of a target it becomes- especially as more and more companies are using Macs.
Could you put this in English for me?? I have a mac , but do not understand what you are saying at all.. help an old lady mac user
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The biggest hole in security always has been and always will be the user. Doesn’t matter how secure the OS is if the user is willing to click yes on every popup and provide the necessary credentials the machine will become a pit of malware.
MAc users get a dose of the real world......
A victim of their own success.
I would point out that this is NOT a virus.
You have to deliberately download it.
You have to deliberately allow the installer to run.
It doesn’t propagate itself to other machines.
That’s not to say that it’s harmless.
If you live out in the sticks in a farmhouse, miles from your nearest neighbor, you can leave your door unlocked.
Just don’t believe that a farmhouse is more secure than a townhouse just because nobody has ever broken in.
As the market fragments, Apple users can expect to be targeted more.
Apple has a very good product, but the fact is that for the longest time the Mac was not the OS ‘of choice’ for the majority of the world. As a result, hackers and virus makers simply ignored it. Now, due in large part to Apple’s dominance over the mobile device market (iPhone, iPad, et al), Apple has taken a huge step into the forefront, which has now attracted the attention of those previously uncaring hackers. Apple needs to stay ahead of them and reinforce their systems, and not just believe their systems are impervious. Otherwise, they’ll be playing catchup like Microsoft for the rest of time.
Thanx for the heads up!
Have not run into this issue yet with my new MacBook Pro. Thanks very much for your advance warning of a potential problem.
In this case, it's malware makers, as the user has to PROACTIVELY give these programs elevated access to the system in order to be installed. Unlike the PC world, your mac is not going to get infected with a virus if you hook it up to the internet out of the box*
* prior to downloading the patches since the OS was installed and the time of purchase.
For the longest time Apple computers have been relatively safe from this kind of thing simply because the return on investment for a hacker developing an Apple virus/Trojan/malware was just not as good as one for Windows. Now there’s so many Macs that they’re worth attacking and they’re also worth attacking because so many Apple users are utterly oblivious to security issues.
Add to this the fact that Apple users tend to be liberal, urban snobs who almost uniformly sneer at PC users as troglodytes and I find myself with precious little sympathy for them.
I thought Swordmaker started this thread? Never mind.