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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shuffler on April 22, 2009, 05:15:02 PM
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Since Macs are a little more common now it seems hackers are starting to target them.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/22/first.mac.botnet/index.html
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'iBotnet' :rofl
At least they were creative in the name.
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Mac computers are known for their near-immunity to malicious computer programs that plague PCs.
The only reason they can say that is because no one has bothered making those types of programs for Macs yet, or almost nobody.
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Whats a MAC?
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Someone who visits the board every now and then
Had a severe case of PNG a while back
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Someone who visits the board every now and then
Had a severe case of PNG a while back
bring back mac.
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The only reason they can say that is because no one has bothered making those types of programs for Macs yet, or almost nobody.
Indeed. I can't wait for the 'I'm a Mac and I'm a PC' commercial after the first serious Mac attack.
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In the 30's and 40's "Mac" was what you would call some one.
"Screw you mac, you take that machine gun nest!"
no?
:rock
n. Slang.
Used as a form of address for a man whose name is unknown.
So it went to mac, buddy, man, guy, home's, dude, and whatever it is today.
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What makes it bad is that mac's are typically insecure boxes. Their owners usually take little or no malware precautions, and have huge misconceptions as to what malware is. The average mac user thinks windows malware is common due to bugs in the OS, but in reality malware targets 'layer 8' in the OSI layer. Hence mac's have always been as susceptible to malware as pc's, it's just nobody could be bothered with their tiny market share.
So now the same old question I always ask comes up again, which is more secure?
- a paranoid windows pc brimming with AV and AS
- or a smug mac with no AV or AS
I believe this will come to bite apple in the butt, as their 'official' policy does not recommend the need for AV software.
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What makes it bad is that mac's are typically insecure boxes. etc
:rofl
if I had 1c for every cpu cycle Ive saved by not having to run AV software on my macs over the years, Bill Gates would be mowing my lawn by now.
now I'm thinking about all those hours of my life wasted clearing malware from PCs or doing clean OS installs. malware which didnt require an explicit request for an administrator password to be installed, just a visit to a website or firing up outlook express. MS OS security is a joke.
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I still prefer my macbook running Firefox with noscript instead of a pc. Theres like 1 in a million chance the virus I'm encountering is a mac virus and I'm not going to get it unless I install some warez. Which I don't.
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I refused to be attacked!
Mac