RRRRAARRRRRRRRrrrrr......

 

On the contrary, this vulnerability was patched 6 weeks ago for Windows without 600,000 infections! Apple...horse....gate...bolt....

 

Take this opportunity to disable Java. Just type Java into Spotlight and you'll find the preferences app. 99.9% of users won't miss it. You're reading an example of how third party software is dragging your machine into the Windows Cess Pit.

If you're feeling brave search for Click to Flash or Click to Plugin, you then have to click on Flash content to play it but again you're another step away from the hellish environment Windows users endure.

 

Jack,

You are so full of ****e it isn't funny anymore.

Flash a huge security risk? Java a huge security risk? What next, users using the Internet a security risk?

Grow up.

No doubt this issue will cause even more publicity, and the share price will go up again. Not that I'm bothered, I got in at 87p a share way back

 

One more before I grow up.

The answer to all your questions is Yes. The first two you can easily do without.

 

http://www.t3.com/news/600000-apple-...y-trojan-virus

The infection continues to rise which is no surprise since the majority of Apple users have the misguided view that Macs are immune to malware and continue use their Macs unpatched as if nothing has happened. I stated a while back in previous debates that as Macs became more popular that eventually they would be subject to this kind of wide scale infection but was dismissed by the fanboys at the time. Also Apple have been slow to address this vulnerability since this the Flashback trojan was first spotted on OSX back in 24 February!!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/n...the-wild/10411

Slate Windows all you want but at least Microsoft addresses these issues in days, not months!

 

Round of applause for stating the obvious.

 

Booby prize for you for stating at that time that this would never happen.

 

 

Macs have always had little problems with Virii and the like due to the fact that it wasn't worth writing a virus for so few users, diminishing returns and all that. Now there are many more Macs in circulation with little to no virus protection they have become a viable target, and that will only get worse. Apple users will continue to believe the hype that OSX is immune form these problems until it gets much worse.

Microsoft has had a free virus program that is extremely good for free for many moons, and this has been the best option for windows, directly competing with the inbuilt protection of OSX, there is no need to install such resource hogging rubbish like Norton and the anymore, so all the myths that Windows PC's are slower than MACs due to virus protection are long gone.

Sure the warning for this trojan has come from an Anti Virus company, but contrary to Jacks usual cynicism, they only advise installing the latest Java and not being dumb enough to click accept security certificate, not install the software they may sell.

Even so, some Mac users will still argue it is BS, that is fine, they will be the ones to suffer in the long term, windows users are getting better and free AV software, I am sure Apple will do the same, it will just require people to sit up and take notice rather than stick their head in the sand and say it isn't a problem.

 

Source? I can dig out me saying what you said if you like, it was 10 years ago but it's out there.

 

OK, here's a question that I used to ask my customers, Which viruses have you had lately?

No viruses for me. I did get clickjacked on Facebook, but that's schoolboy stuff.

 

Jack, Scoobynet has a search function that you can use if you can't remember what you said, but I and everybody else knows that you asserted that Mac OS is the most secure OS and malware was simply not an issue for Macs. Well Flashback trojan has proved you wrong. You also said the same for iOS, well I guess we'll have to wait for that, but for now those lemons must be pretty bitter for you.

 

Thankfully 1 + 2 on my system, heh.

Richie.

 

I remember exactly what I said, I said the same as you, quite publicly. I was thinking more of Google to find it, it's embarrassing, give it ten years and you'll probably feel the same.

I would never say that Malware is not an issue for any operating system, and certainly not any applications.

 

Not Sophos, why didn't it care about Sophos?

 

There is already free anti virus software for OSX, I use Sophos which is free for OSX and a leading global AV provider. That's what's so absurd, people deliberately choose not to have AV on their MACs when there is a leading product they can have for free.

 

It was just the later variants that started checking for stuff Jack. I guess the evil muppets release newer versions to increase it's successful delivery. God only knows why Apple waited 8 weeks from the time oracle/sun fixed it, a patch should have come out within the first week imo. Ah well.

 

Who says Apple waited six weeks. Maybe the update wasn't made available.

 

Unfortunately they did Jack, you know what Apple are like.
Sun releases a patch and then Apple release it in their own time once they have veted it. Anyway this will all change very soon as Apple are turning away from the onus on them to release the Java updates as reported a while back and it will be up to the users to update their own systems


http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20020338-260.html

 

Two iMacs visited today neither had Java installed. This incident is the death knell for Java.

 

You concluded that from visiting 2 iMacs

 

Security flaws have existed in OSX for some time but Apple been perpetuating the falsehood that it's a secure OS that isn't affected my malware. It's long been one of their selling points and lots of people have fallen for it and continue to do so.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57...a-big-problem/

 

Is that right.... I don't run any anti-virus!

 

I'd read it before you posted it. I don't see any statement suggesting Apple thought it would be funny to hold on for six weeks before releasing a patch.

Don't believe the hype.

 

haha that's good coming from someone who LIVES off the hype, Apples!

 

I don't believe he does, just uses it to wind the suckers up on this board.

 

There's way more hype from he Apple haters than from Apple.

 

Seven Macs checked, all clean √