Apple suggests Mac users to install antivirus software

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Kasz216 said:

Senlis said:

vlad321 said:

The only reason Macs don't get viruses is because viruses are not made for them. Apple is extremely inexperienced when compare to Microsoft when it comes to handling exploits and overall security. Microsoft has been dealing with crap like that for over a decade, Apple hasn't even really bothered. Pray that the Mac never overtakes Windows because then it will be a field day for hackers and malicious code programmers.

People said the same thing about firefox, that there are less exploits for firefox since it is not used as much as Internet Explorer.  Now that firefox is widely used, it is still more secure than IE7.

I can list several reasons that Mac is more secure than PC.  A couple are: 1) They do not use file extensions to define how the operating system handles files. 2) MacOSX core is a linux OS, which runs more secure than Windows.

People will always say that the product with the smaller market share are more secure only because hackers don't make exploits for them whether or not it is true.  If MacOS was so easy to hack, more people would do it, regardless of the market share.

 

Yet when hackers were given a contest to hack an Apple and a Windows labtop the Apple was hacked first.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/27/Gone-in-2-minutes-Mac-gets-hacked-first-in-contest_1.html

First try.  Funny that.

While it took these world class hackers till Friday to get into the windows program.

Apple has it's own weaknesses in it's system that Windows is better in.  It's just.... nobody cares.

I remember when that happened they had physical access to the machine. and they did it through firefox (not a native app), they also disabled a normal security feature on the machine that would have kept the file from executing by not assigning a password. there was something else they did i cant remember for the life of me what it was... but they exploit is listed now for 10.4.10 as a known issue i dont know if it was ever fixed for 10.4, but i know it does not effect 10.5. .... and also you need phsical access to the unit to do it...... there was a write up about the whole thing on a mac website earlier this year after apple looked into it and released most of the details