Confiker Panic
on 04/01/2009 at 06:16 AM
My lips...are sealed.
I was just having a conversation with someone who is about to buy a
Mac. I was against to it and an argument started. I said there were to
few people supporting the Mac.He responded “When was the last time you heard of a virus on a Mac?”
And I said “See, even people who write viruses don’t support Macs”.
Heheheheeh :3
Just something to stir the coals!
On a serious note. I have a little experience with computers, having had a TRS-80 model 1 in ‘79, and taking computer classes on A Burroughs mainframe (with punchcards and paper tape!) I have had every generation of AMD CPU, having a dislike for Moore and Intel. I can build, repair, and upgrade, and even do a little bit of programming.
I have ~never~ had a virus.
It isn’t the excellent anti-virus programs.. I have never had one for more than an hour, damn resource pigs in my opinion. It is just being careful. I don’t download from strangers, I don’t take attachments, unless I expect it. I download from sites I can trust, a few of which I have relied on since the net was all command line, with HTML on the way, but still a dream. It may also be the fact that I rarely rely on Microsoft for my software. I don’t use Internet Exploder, Outlook Exmess, or most of that. I use Firefox, I read my mail on web type services, except for 1 POP server that I, myself administer, and as I said, if an attachment is sent to me, it gets deleted unless I was expecting it.
The worse I have ever had was a Chinese Malware bot pop through my defenses.Drew dropped me a line, and came up with a good point.
Yeah, well when was the last time you had a REAL virus on your PC?
I think that the whole virus thing is nearly as overinflated as the kiddie daycare perversion witch hunts of the early 90s. All bullshit, no victims.
This is a great point. Most of the big ‘virus alerts’ only come upon those who don’t look for stuff. The careless. I am sorry if you have had a virus in the past, but look at your actions beforehand. Di you open an email from a friend, and download the attachment even though the body of the mail read like gibberish? Did you let your 12-year old go surfing unsupervised? Did you download that ‘must have’ game from some site who’s name you forgot immediately after you downloaded it? You play with fire, you get burnt. You use the precautions, and you don’t, simple enough.
Viruses can’t be injected through web pages. Trojans can through a myriad of technical innovations brought in through Windoze, Office (macro bombs), Outlook, Exploder. Security holes through hastily designed and undertested software. Who benefits from said viruses?
Usually the people who make the software, which can find ‘suspicious’ files in a text document, and turn your powerhouse machine into the slowest thing in 2 states NOT to mention popping in and shutting down the program you ~were~ using, so it can do a full system scan whether you want it or not.
The press loves this though. They will set a crew to watch a computer at the target time and report on it like a major war. They will post count-downs, and treat it like a HUGE event. Conficker is a classic example.. remember Michelangelo? Most people don’t, and if they do, it’s very vague. Same thing as Conficker.. The Love virus? Hoax. Most viruses are a scam.
Good point Drew.
Sorry about the rambling rant..
BillHow do you know you do not have a malware hiding and scamming your passwords? sure you can actually have malware on a Mac-via microsofts bloatware, office X is about the same size as the latest OSX, the Mac version is tiny next to office. The truth is microsoft are flashy and careless (having had to get round Apples patents for the ideas they stole cant of helped) today unless you want a cheap laptop with half an os you are better off getting a Mac and running parallells to run windows programs that are not supported on OSX, in a lot of cases if you compare like for like the Apple is comparable in price, except on the high end gear and that is cheaper.
Posted by Chris Edwards
04/01/2009 at 08:45 PM
