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| Thread ID: 102023 | 2009-08-04 22:03:00 | Can Mac's get infected with spyware? | GR8Metal (14133) | Press F1 |
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| 798184 | 2009-08-05 04:36:00 | Please dont take any offence to this as its not meant to offend. I don't get offended. :thumbs: And never report anything apart from spam or new members being muppets. I support free speech and almost everything that goes along with it. :D You're right, the OS9 machine doesn't count, just thought I'd mention it cause we all like splitting hairs so much, as the question was Mac related, not OSX related ;) Anyway, this OSX machine. It was slow, would take around 5 mins to get to the desktop. The dock wouldn't operate properly, and when Safari was opened multiple windows would keep opening directing to pron sites and various other drivel. I basically tried to manually navigate around the hard drive and delete stuff that looked sus, but in the end I didn't have the knowledge to clean it out. There seemed to be an application installed that was triggering the popups, but I was unable to remove it. I am guessing it was originally knowingly installed. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 798185 | 2009-08-05 04:39:00 | Spyware, Trojans and viruses are all the same thing in my book, they all do things to a computer that they arent supposed to. And anything connected to the internet is connected to millions of scripts/software that are designed to wreck havock on the user, regardless of OS. Safari - Because you havent found a virus/anything on a mac doesnt mean that the other few billion people in this world havent. ps. I hate macs, they are cool as toys and they look stunning but flag using it for anything other than internets |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 798186 | 2009-08-05 09:46:00 | All it takes is a novice user not realizing what they are clicking on and infection can occur. Yes I suspect most if not all are social engineering. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 798187 | 2009-08-05 10:12:00 | If i can stick my :2cents: in here please. I have been working with macs for about 10 years from OS8 till now. Have not had any kind of virus or spyware attack me on any of the macs that I run and have been looking over. Remember somewhere earlier in the thread some one said something about Popup windows, of the cases of problems that I have had to deal with it has been some one clicking on a popup which downloads and exe to their machine which Mac OS X can not open, and the default program happens to be Parallels or something like that which virtuals Windows on a mac. Then the spyware gets out of the partitioned hard drive using the Virtual operating system and then starts to play with OS X system files through the Virtual. |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 798188 | 2009-08-05 10:22:00 | Apple released a lot of security updates for previous releases of Safari, it was known to have issues and the new version is much safer, that said common sense is in short supply around the town it seems. iAntivirus only works on Leopard, ClamXav is a good antivirus for Tiger ( please donate if you use it ) Macs self defrag, but only when you shut them down, I leave mine on for weeks and notice a significant slowdown in that time, then I close it and wait a short time whilst it sorts itself out. " ps. I hate macs, they are cool as toys and they look stunning but flag using it for anything other than internets ", mmm, graphic design , web page building, music and movie editing, 3d animation, seems to me that a lot of the world finds a use for Macs. Most design houses prefer them. I cannot tell you how much my creative life has been enhanced and made easier by acquiring a Mac, hell, I can even Game on mine. This constant bickering over whose is best gets tiresome, Ford or Holden ? |
limepile (96) | ||
| 798189 | 2009-08-05 10:24:00 | Remember The Lord Of The Rings trilogy was made on macs, and quite old ones at that | nedkelly (9059) | ||
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