Comments on: Are Mac Users Worried About Security? Our Survey-Takers Are…But Only a Little.

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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:38:08 +0000

[...] the results of a little survey about Mac security that showed that the respondents, at least, are a pretty blasé bunch compared to their Windows-using friends. With the exception of firewall software–which comes [...]

By: avro

avro — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:24:16 +0000

@ DAG

The problem is the AV companies are always behind the curve. A new piece of MalWare comes out and they have no protection and by the time they do, it has been modified.

Not so much building an Ark as building a Maginot Line, absolutely useless. The Bad guys just go round it and bite you on the backside.

Your Typhoid Mary comment: Is it Mac Users’ fault if you decide to use an insecure OS? You have a choice. You could get a Mac.

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:14:46 +0000

Considering there are no Mac OS X viruses in the wild, and what AV software does is check virus signatures, then there’s not much sense running Mac AV software at this time.

By: DAG

DAG — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:44:14 +0000

According to the Old Testament, when did Noah build the ark?
Before the rains came and before the flood.

One day there will be a significant and serious OS X exploit and those not ready will be bitten hard. The smug FanBois will not garner one iota of sympathy because of their arrogance and ignorance.

Besides, Macs make good vectors for malware- the Typhoid Marys of the computer world.

By: mss

mss — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:42:26 +0000

I agree that the Mac Market Share Myth is FUD. Our Macs used to get viruses BEFORE OS X. We’d run Nortan (Symantec) Anti-Virus and occasionally snag something. This was in the mid to late 1990’s when Mac market share was much lower than it is now. Nowadays, on OS X, I’ll occasionally run an anti-virus program. Nothing’s ever shown up.

By: avro

avro — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:21:46 +0000

There has been a lot of comment on this in the past week and most of it seems to fall into the Mac Market-Share MalWare Myth. The oft repeated Microsoft PR contention that Macs don’t suffer from MalWare because of the small percentage of computer users who have Macs. This has never been proven and as Macs become more popular we are not seeing more exploits. Macs are probably safer because of elevated permissions and architecture. The bad guys are trained in attacking Windows and many of these come from the old Eastern block. Mac architecture is unknown to them and unless Apple sets up a Mac U in Moscow it is likely to remain that way.

Let’s stop all this FUD.