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The Register » Security » Comments on ‘Scareware scammers target Mac users’False securityPublished Tuesday 15th January 2008 13:33 GMT
Typical of capitalist corporations to ignore Linux!By Neil Woolford
Posted Tuesday 15th January 2008 14:54 GMT
First the indignity of not being able to use BBC iPlayer or whatever it is on our Linux boxes and now the insult of not receiving properly crafted scareware ads. I look forward to earnest forum postings, aimed at complete newbies, about simply needing to "Open a terminal, use vim to edit /etc/apt/sources to include www.dodgy.malware.cn and then just apt-get update and apt-get upgrade....." "In a way the creation of the malware is a complement, of sorts, to the Mac"By An ominous cow herd
Posted Tuesday 15th January 2008 15:04 GMT
And may I complement the author on that assumption.... No wayBy Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 15th January 2008 15:28 GMT
Its a complete lie. Macs are super special awesome and never have problems ever. @No WayBy Paul George
Posted Tuesday 15th January 2008 18:40 GMT
Get back under the bridge! :-) A mac user since the 512K Social EngineeringBy Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 15th January 2008 20:14 GMT
Quote: ""[This] doesn't mean that Mac is becoming less secure in and of itself. But it does mean that Mac users will have to watch out for social engineering tricks just like Windows users have had to do for years," F-secure reports." Um, Mac users have had to do and should have been doing that anyway, so what is new about this? Nothing. Re: Social EngineeringBy Morely Dotes
Posted Tuesday 15th January 2008 23:26 GMT
"[This] doesn't mean that Mac is becoming less secure in and of itself. But it does mean that Mac users will have to watch out for social engineering tricks just like Windows users have had to do for years," F-secure reports." But they've been doing that. That's how they decided to get a Mac in the first place - they resisted the social engineering tricks foisted on the sheeple by Microsoft. (I'm a Linux fanboi, persoanlly, but Macs are at least not Windows. The enemy of my enemy is ... Well, a less threatening enemy.) "In a way the creation of the malware is a complement, of sorts, to the Mac"By Aubry Thonon
Posted Tuesday 15th January 2008 23:33 GMT
I didn't realise that Macs needed malware to be considered complete... No, Really?By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 16th January 2008 03:14 GMT
One of the first things I did when I got my MacBook was scope out the types of security available for Macs. I figured sooner or later since Vista is such a piece of shite more people were going to go "to the Dark Side" (well, as M$ sees it), and malware attacks were going to rise...some of us aren't idiots. Looks like the free ride is over. The period for commenting on this story has finished |
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