Is Mac OS Really Due to be Targeted by Malware?

• Fred Flintstone

  Is this the beginning of things to come for Mac users?
  
  http://www.tested.com/news/is-mac-os-really-due-to-be-targeted-by-malware/2283/
• se-alum

  

  Of course they will start targeting the Mac OS. It was never the fact the Mac OS security was so good, it had more to do with Mac having such a small percent of the market, so they weren't targeted as much.
• bases_loaded

  

  Weird...my Aunt sent me a txt Saturday night asking about Mac customer service because she keeps getting Gay Porn pop ups...
• Fred Flintstone

  bases_loaded;763087 wrote:Weird...my Aunt sent me a txt Saturday night asking about Mac customer service because she keeps getting Gay Porn pop ups...

  
  Have you been using her computer lately?
• bases_loaded

  

  Fred Flintstone;763108 wrote:Have you been using her computer lately?

  
  Yes I've been making the 11 hour trip on the reg.
• Automatik

  

  It was only a matter of time. For the majority of users this is a non-issue. For the careless and computer illiterate ie. my Dad....this could cause problems.
• dlazz

  Automatik;763151 wrote: For the careless and computer illiterate this could cause problems.

  
  Unfortunately most Mac users are lumped into this category. This is the chain of events for a typical braindead computer user:
  
  Step 1: Buy a PC
  Step 2: Don't protect the PC and get a virus
  Step 3: Get frustrated and buy a Mac
  Step 4: Don't know how to use nor protect the Mac
  Step 5: Irritate everyone else because they don't know how to use their new computer
• O-Trap

  

  se-alum was right on the money. Mac's OS is nothing special. They've just owned such a small percentage of the market that it was impractical for a person to build a piece of malware that targeted Macs, because the majority of OSes that it would hit would be Windows-based.
  
  To date, malware has been to Macs what tornados have been to Las Vegas. Las Vegas isn't impervious to tornados. They're just never around to do damage there. If one was to touch down, Vegas would be no less succeptible to damage.
• Thread Bomber

  

  O-Trap;763468 wrote:se-alum was right on the money. Mac's OS is nothing special. They've just owned such a small percentage of the market that it was impractical for a person to build a piece of malware that targeted Macs, because the majority of OSes that it would hit would be Windows-based.
  
  To date, malware has been to Macs what tornados have been to Las Vegas. Las Vegas isn't impervious to tornados. They're just never around to do damage there. If one was to touch down, Vegas would be no less succeptible to damage.

  If you re going to use a tornado analogy, at least do it right.
  
  Macs are like farm houses in Kansas. Big shit blowing over their heads all of the time, rarely ever sustaining damage.
  
  Widows based systems are like house trailers. Not only are they hit all the time, they attract the fucking tornadoes
  
  
  
• I Wear Pants

  Actually the Mac OS lost market share last Quarter I believe. So no, it's not going to start getting super targeted or something. But the same type of people that get viruses and malware on PCs get it on Macs as well. Those people we call idiots or if they aren't idiots they're old.
• O-Trap

  

  I Wear Pants;763618 wrote:Actually the Mac OS lost market share last Quarter I believe. So no, it's not going to start getting super targeted or something. But the same type of people that get viruses and malware on PCs get it on Macs as well. Those people we call idiots or if they aren't idiots they're old.

  
  Yeah, but there are fewer pieces of malware that can engage both Windows-based and Mac-based operating systems than there are just ones that target Windows operating systems.
  
  They exist, though, but in order to get them, you have to actively download something.
• O-Trap

  

  Thread Bomber;763479 wrote:If you re going to use a tornado analogy, at least do it right.
  
  Macs are like farm houses in Kansas. Big shit blowing over their heads all of the time, rarely ever sustaining damage.
  
  Widows based systems are like house trailers. Not only are they hit all the time, they attract the fucking tornadoes

  LOL! Nah. Again, trailers in Kansas versus trailers in Oregon. Both are equally vulnerable against tornados, but only one has circumstances that make that possibility more realistic (the ones in Kansas are "targeted" by tornados").
  
  Without protection, a MacOS is just as worthless against malware as a Windows OS.