Half a million Mac computers 'infected with malware'

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ShambleS1980 said:
i dont care who says what lol.
if some one saysd today i will make a virus and it will target "XXXX OS" then there is gonna be a virus.
Windows is the most obvious target because so many people THAT DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE A COMPUTER use it.
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Fixed for the truth.;)
 
i use windows because its better lol..
I have linux but it is only usefull for some things and macs just well suck..

So its not true lol..

its more like. Windows users arent as pretentious as mac users or linux fanboys :p..

and i mean that as in the following definition.
"Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified"

Dont get me wrong Windows its self may well be conciderd pretentious. But as a whole the end users arent.
but 1st thing some 1 switches to a mac or linux they catch "smug" but again thats something altogether diferent and totaly irrelivant to the topic
 
tokyoracer said:
MacOS is no safer then any other OS in reality, it's just there's less virus' about then Windo$e.
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yup, it's not more secure just less computers running it and therefor less of a target.

as somebody started in an earlier reply at least Windows users have some form of protection against attacks. Mac users have no defense at the moment.
 
quarkx said:
Bad_Ad84 said:
There hasn't been hundreds of thousands of windows exploits.
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well, I don't know how you would classify Viruses, mal-ware, Extortion ware, spyware etc, but last I looked, there were over 100 variants of the Win-anti-virus 20xx. I call them all exploits and the last I heard that Norton labs had over 5 million of them in their testing labs. There was a You tube video by them a few years back stating they had them all "Contained" and running in their labs.
Now yes, I know Norton is a Virus in itself, but my God the swap thats out there for Window's users, it just boogles the mind, I wonder how anyone can surf the net anymore.
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Exploits aren't any of the things you mentioned. ALOT of those use no exploit at all, just the stupidity of users running as administrator and running stuff they shouldn't.

I can make an app right now that will screw up your system... For mac, windows, Amiga or anything else.... A app that is ran as administrator and does something undesirable isn't an exploit or the os's issue or problem.

Exploits are bugs or problems that allow code to run without you allowing it etc.

So, yes - windows has had nothing like the exploits you claim. Your figures don't relate to the topic.
 
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