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| Thread ID: 123835 | 2012-03-19 19:58:00 | Windows 8 vs Apple Security levels | Nhashon (16466) | Press F1 |
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| 1265917 | 2012-03-20 04:12:00 | Wainui is correct, I run antivirus on my mac. Just in the weekend it picked up two nasties. Lucky for me their were windows nasties. Pretty sure it comes from crap the kids download off face book Facebook ? Really It used to be Warez, now its Facebook |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1265918 | 2012-03-20 04:27:00 | Yep Facebook, the two I picked up were from Facebook. Describe as jpegs but were executables. Chrome didn't pick it up. The antivirus did. I wish I taken more notice of what they were before deleting. Just looked back through the logs, it was a Trojan. |
plod (107) | ||
| 1265919 | 2012-03-20 05:29:00 | Windows is more vulnerable than OSX by default because people only make malicious content for windows. OSX has a fairly bad protection system but relies on the fact that there is nothing to hurt the system. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1265920 | 2012-03-20 05:31:00 | Why is OSX protection system worse then windows? | plod (107) | ||
| 1265921 | 2012-03-20 05:35:00 | because its practically non existant. apple spends little time working on security whereas microsoft spends quite a fair amount of timing making there OS safe. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1265922 | 2012-03-20 05:40:00 | because its practically non existant. apple spends little time working on security whereas microsoft spends quite a fair amount of timing making there OS safe.Ok, can you point me to your link please. I take it you have documentation backing your statement. | plod (107) | ||
| 1265923 | 2012-03-20 05:48:00 | when i say practically non existant i should really say that in terms of security against malicious software OSX will never be as good as windows and should never need to be. the fact that you can run OSX withought any anti virus software or anti malware is because there are hardly any viruses or malware that could "infect" your system. Windows security is much better because it needs to be. there a a large range of anti virus and anti malware software for windows thus making it the system with the better security. that being said windows machines have a higher chance of getting infected over there lifetime because there is a relativly high chance your computer will encounter malicious software. OSX will probably not because it shouldnt encounter any malicious software. this does not mean OSX is better protected but it does mean there is less threat. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
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