1 in 5 Macs Has Malware [STUDY]

Then we have people like you ... who are woefully ignorant of malware.

You know I was responding to the idiot q-4-qlinton the troll, right?

Idiots like me that have been using Macs since 1985? I had twelve infected files in my deleted mail, all from windows users they all had executables, which do not affect me. They won't affect you either since I never forward mail unless I know the sender.

I apologize, I didn’t realize you were being sarcastic and replying to a troll.

I spend a lot of time recovering other people’s data, after they have either done something foolish - or had refused (1x) to listen to me with regards to malware.

I’ll warn you, and help you recover the 1st time; after that, you get called an idiot to your face (yup, this applies to MY relatives, primarily) and then told to take their problem to a company that specializes with fixing these things. I tell them point blank - my time is too precious to fix an idiot’s problem, especially when they keep making the same mistake.

Funny how a blunt chew out, and a ~$200 bill from a computer shop can educate someone, where free advice fails. The next time they ask for a suggestion from me (which is far less often, I assure you); they listen to it.

Malware is a huge problem - it’s a problem for Windows and now it’s becoming a problem for Macs. I’m equally harsh on Windows users who forward Mac Malware, as I am for Mac users forwarding Windows malware. There is no reason to do this, when there are good FREE solutions out there.

No one likes spending hours recovering their valuable data, and being the cause of someone else’s misery is inexcusable today. Macs are, by nature, immune to many of the malware attacks - however, unless you never connect to the internet or an outside data source - everyone needs some form of anti-malware program.

I spend a lot of time recovering other people’s data,

I have maybe 25 T of hard drive space on my network, with multiple backups.I have time machine backups and always have bootable clones.

I did run all the scripts that were supposed to detect ad remove the latest exploits, but they were not present on any of my machines.

I went a little deeper and found 12 emails with attached exe files, that had been in my archives for years. Someone running a PC without protection sent them to me, but they had no effect on my mac at all. I have every email that I have been sent since the second version of OS X, which was the last clean install I have done.

Since I really don't have any use for most of the gazllions of apps that I have accumulated over the years. I think I will divorce myself from the past entirely when the next version of OS X comes out since I have most everything I need now from the APP store. I will destroy all my emails even addresses I have had for years, because at 73 I really don't need the aggravation. My life is now all about simplification.

25T network storage!!

Dude, you are my hero.

I don’t own a Mac, but my next PC will be a Mac mini. But the base model, bump it to 8 GB via Amazon and $39.

I’m tired of fighting Windows, and Win8 doesn’t impress me at all. If I’m going to go through a learning curve, I think it’s best that I go through the curve that leads to a known positive experience - and for that, the Mac wins; it’s no contest.

My first Hard Drive was a 5 megabyte Sider that I paid $400.00 for used. Memory was on eproms and 1 meg of ram would set you back about $400.00 as well.

For really simple network storage I use a WD Home Network drive, plug and play. You can get those up to 4T for about half of what I paid for my first drive. My biggest drive currently is a Drobo raid, but I have continually upgraded the Drobo as bigger drives became available, by buying externals and swapping them out, so I have lots of 1 and 2 gig externals daisy chained to my iMac.

My first 1 gig drive was made by Conner and set me back $870.00, times change :)

The new Mac Mini you are looking at will have 2 thunderbolt ports and external drives are becoming available for those ports, and a lot of wild claims about how fast they are, maybe as fast as SDD drives, then you can daisy chain a monitor to that.

I hope you enjoy your first Mac, I have never been disappointed with mine, except maybe the older G5 versions that had bad capacitors. No failures for me personally, but a couple I gave away had problems, which were covered by Apple even though they were out of warranty.

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