Over half a million Macs infected

[AlexHenry]

Very interesting, thanks for posting! My mum just got a Mac and to be honest, it's really hard to use after being a Window user for like your whole life - does look nice though!

[Conspiracy.]

Am I the only one who found it easier to use after using Windows all my life? The only thing that confused me at first was that the top menus don't follow the window.

[Accipiter]

Am I the only one who found it easier to use after using Windows all my life? The only thing that confused me at first was that the top menus don't follow the window.

I think it depends on your mindset, I can generally sit down with any OS or software and crack on with it. I don't know how macs can be hard to use though since they have about 9 different ways to do 1 command!

The only thing I dont get is why apple is so against setting a default right click!

[triston220]

That's usually where the virus sets up a proxy in your internet settings which makes everything appear normal but actually running all sorts through your system and redirecting you to other insecure sites in order to spread the nastiness. It does require infection to have happened previously though, it's not something you can just pick up from Google

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that if you're DNS poisoned you don't need to have been previously infected.

Macs are all java, really easy to write viruses for.. thats when you know java well and when you know all the OSX java includes. My copy of windows 7 i have had for 3 years without any antivirus protection, and ive never had a virus.

Undoubtedly, you've been infected.

[HotelUser]

I'll admit... this did make me giggle a bit. Macs are supposed to be "free from infection" - and this proved them wrong.

haha thats why you dont get a mac. windows ftw

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Nobody said OS X was completely impenetrable and nobody would suggest that in the first place. OS X is still targeted a lot less than Windows. It was targeted less before this virus and it still isn't targeted after the virus, so to @Pension; this doesn't prove anyone wrong because nobody claimed OS X was 100% safe from viruses (that would be a silly claim to make anyway), and to @JerseyShore; are you suggesting you shouldn't use OS X because of a virus scare, when there are even more virus scares on Windows? That seems inconclusive to me

[GommeInc]

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Nobody said OS X was completely impenetrable and nobody would suggest that in the first place. OS X is still targeted a lot less than Windows. It was targeted less before this virus and it still isn't targeted after the virus, so to @Pension this doesn't prove anyone wrong because nobody claimed OS X was 100% safe from viruses (that would be a silly claim to make anyway), and to @JerseyShore are you suggesting you shouldn't use OS X because of a virus scare, when there are even more virus scares on Windows? That seems inconclusive to me

Depends who you mean by nobody On this forum then yes you are correct, I don't think i've seen anyone explicitly state that a Mac or OS X is safe. However, beyond the realms of common sense Apple and their sheep continuously advertise OS X as a safe haven from mean, nasty old viruses. In my opinion, people who do believe in marketing statements like the ones made by Apple deserve all the viruses they may get, for believing marketing ploys as scripture and being too thick to function.

[Recursion]

Macs are all java, really easy to write viruses for.. thats when you know java well and when you know all the OSX java includes. My copy of windows 7 i have had for 3 years without any antivirus protection, and ive never had a virus. In fact viruses on windows are quite rare now days, you will only get them on torrents or illegal things.. So if you get one basically you where on a bad site (remember you have to approve a program before it can run on windows 7 therefor not allowing viruses to run and company sites will not have viruses). Macs have had many viruses in the past, there just not known to the public due to apples advertising the fact they "have none". Truth is macs are very likley to get a virus, in fact a few years ago my uncle got one and his computer no longer worked.. macs have no bios so he was unable to fix it. Apple would not give him a new mac and they could not fix it. He ended up spending £2000 just to buy a new mac for his work, and he had to redo everything he had done on his old mac because your unable to get harddrives out of them.

What my rant is saying is, no os is save from viruses no matter what the creator says. People just believe what they say because they have little computer knowledge.

Macs use EFI, not BIOS, but even still... if you whack the OS X disk in you can easily reinstall....

Also, Macs are not at all based on Java or integrated with it at all. Mac software generally runs on Cocoa/Objective-C

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Nobody said OS X was completely impenetrable and nobody would suggest that in the first place. OS X is still targeted a lot less than Windows. It was targeted less before this virus and it still isn't targeted after the virus, so to @Pension; this doesn't prove anyone wrong because nobody claimed OS X was 100% safe from viruses (that would be a silly claim to make anyway), and to @JerseyShore; are you suggesting you shouldn't use OS X because of a virus scare, when there are even more virus scares on Windows? That seems inconclusive to me

ok sorry for tht m8

[Zak]

I'm clean hooray

[JerseySafety]

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Nobody said OS X was completely impenetrable and nobody would suggest that in the first place. OS X is still targeted a lot less than Windows. It was targeted less before this virus and it still isn't targeted after the virus, so to @Pension; this doesn't prove anyone wrong because nobody claimed OS X was 100% safe from viruses (that would be a silly claim to make anyway), and to @JerseyShore; are you suggesting you shouldn't use OS X because of a virus scare, when there are even more virus scares on Windows? That seems inconclusive to me

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