In my experience, most viruses are installed through social engineering,
and not software engineering.
There is a HUGE install base of Mac users, who are Mac users because
they've bought into the fantasy that Mac's are immune to viruses. I've
specifically recommended Mac's to several friends because they seem
unable to follow good security procedures on their PC's and were
repeatedly virus infected. Many of these users have no anti-virus on
their Mac's at all - and in fact, many Apple experts recommend that you
not use an anti-virus on a Mac so as to conserve resources.
Looks like that user base has finally become large enough to become an
attractive target to hackers. I think that if the Mac user base
continues to grow, you'll find an explosion in viruses targeting them.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.
-Mark
On 5/26/11 3:04 PM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote:
> A couple of installers arrived on my Mac but I quit my browser and promptly removed them. Easy to make a mistake, though, if you don't look out for such things.
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> On 26 May 2011, at 19:05, Terence Curren wrote:
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>> Hit a few sites that downloaded it, but you still have to choose to install. I never install anything I didn't order, so I wasn't hit. But it is interesting that Macs are no longer safe. Now that Apple stuck it's head above the rest, it has become the big target.
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>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy"<oliverpeters@...> wrote:
>>> Hopefully no one here was caught by this:
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>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13560137
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>>> - Oliver
>>>
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