“Three days after ZDNet ran a piece entitled ‘Coming Soon to a Mac Near You: Serious Malware,’ Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has posted, under the headline ‘Wolf!’ more than a dozen variations on the same theme,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt repots for Fortune.
“They date back to 2004 and all sound a familiar warning: Apple, having achieved critical mass in the market place, is about to get hit by the same waves of viruses, worms, trojans and other species of malware that plague the world of Microsoft Windows,” P.E.D. reports.
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Gruber’s “Wolf!” article is here.
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Is Mac under a virus attack? No. – May 4, 2011
I get viruses on my MacBook Pro all the time. I don’t know what you guys are talking about. Why just yesterday, while running Parallels, I had to clean a virus off my system 🙂
I find a lot of these comments regarding mac malwares and viruses rather amusing as the lot of you BS’er and eejits don’t know a damn thing about this topic. Some of you profess to be mac users when in reality just a bunch of trolls then some old time macusers. I have been using macs for 8 years and I havent gotten a single virus or malwares. Even with an occasional scan that comes up clean proves my point. Never used an Anti-virus or Anti-malware, even worked for the federal gov’t in DC and not one mac got a virus or malware the years I have worked there.
Go on, beat your chest about this topic but its not worth debating with a bunch trolling eejits.
Wait, what does that mean for browsing pron?
This stupidity shows a lack of understanding about how the Mac differs from a pc.you can not hide excitable code in a Mac document because the application and the document content are on separate resorce forks pcs liniar code makes it easy (content and program are in the same code line that is why say word opens 5times on your task bar if you have 5documents open it is the difficulty of the task that protects the Mac not the lack of victims would you not want to be the first if you were looking for hacker cred!
Thanks all. I didn’t expect so many knowledgeable answers! So… The only way to get a virus into your Mac is to sneeze on top of the keyboard.
it’s just begun since mac has been popular. if market share will get higher like US for the world (say more than 10%), mac can’t stay away from major threat at all. it’s natural. but I don’t think that Apple will get even 5-7% for international market share. it’s still pricey, PC is still more powerful for price. even what the worst thing is if Apple will replace processor by their own ARM thing near the future, the whole situation will get worse because they don’t want to fight against major chip produce companies like Intel, AMD, NVIDIA. I am sure that Apple can’t compete with them.
well, sort of. i think i read that samsung did the gruntwork for the ipad cpu.
nvidia etc will need to design all the way, or team tight with someone else.
intel and amd will sell anything to anyone. no exclusivity.
Yesterday my daughter experienced a strange type of behavior on her MacBook. while checking her email some kind of web page opened up (in Firefox her default browser) that looked exactly like a Finder window but had blinking red numbers and warned that her system was infected. She didn’t know it was a web page cleverly disguised until she called me over and I examined the screen. We quit FIrefox, reopened, and that was the end of that. She could not tell me if she clicked on a strange email or hovered over some strange ad, but we could not get it to come up again. Be alert!
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