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patrickl:

--- Quote from: Level42 on January 10, 2009, 05:36:17 pm ---....and yet no-one has succeeded in creating one.

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Ehm, a month ago Apple advised people to install a virus scanner on their macs. They quickly removed the support notice though.

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on January 08, 2009, 10:44:53 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 08, 2009, 10:40:29 am ---First thing they did was purge the archives of all the 'edgey' content - the stuff that was actually funny.  All the dud articles were left online.  

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Agreed.  I've searched for various articles before with no luck. 

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Any examples?   I've been able to find old articles without a problem.  Though I really didn't start reading it until the late 90's.

But even if you think it's lost its edge, do yourself a favor and pick up the Onion's "Our Dumb Planet".  My favorite is the entry on Nicaragua (the header is: "Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start").

Havok:

--- Quote from: Level42 on January 10, 2009, 05:36:17 pm ---....and yet no-one has succeeded in creating one.

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The whole point of viruses nowadays is big money. You don't see the little dweebs living in their mom's basement writing viruses anymore. The big bad viruses come from organized crime. Now, if you are trying to steal from someone, will you hit the little piddly amount of users, or the vast majority? It's all about numbers, nothing else. The only protection Macs have is that no-one gives a crap about such a small amount of users.

As far as being proactive and the actual number of vulnerabilities, and time til patched, I believe that Microsoft has finally gotten ahead of the game and now leads Apple in that regard.

Now, back on topic: that video was awesome! I loved the part where they show the one guy with the email he "typed" - with all the spelling errors! (Just like dudes that use an iPhone)

Level42:

--- Quote from: Havok on January 11, 2009, 05:27:54 am ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on January 10, 2009, 05:36:17 pm ---....and yet no-one has succeeded in creating one.

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The only protection Macs have is that no-one gives a crap about such a small amount of users.

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Sure. 30 Million computers worldwide is not a thing to attack eh.....if you really believe that you're really dreaming.

AtomSmasher:
As it's been said, the reason Macs don't get viruses is because of their mail client and web browser.  There have been viruses that infect macs through other programs, but they're just not as widespread since the mail client and web browser are the best way to quickly spread an infection.  I remember reading about one virus that infected computers through Open Office (which has since been patched) and the virus was capable of infecting everything from Macs to Linux to Windows.  I'm sure if you do a search for a Mac vs Pc argument on this forum from 6+ months ago, then you'll find links I posted about the virus.

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