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Old 28 June 2017, 09:41 PM
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Default iOS 10 years not a single serious malware case

Let's take a minute to congratulate Apple, that's quite the achievement.
Old 28 June 2017, 10:34 PM
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Apple is always be safe and thats why its products are expensive and its worth it I love my Macbook pro cost me £1899 but well worth it
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does this not apply?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/0...r_ios_malware/
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Originally Posted by BlkKnight
No, you need to infect more than 5 people to be considered serious.

Have a word with my mate Mikko
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Don't recall a serious malware incident any phone iv had...
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Originally Posted by dpb
Don't recall a serious malware incident any phone iv had...
Here's the first one on Google only 36,000,000 devices not not that serious.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0..._judy_malware/
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Safety by obscurity, makes sense that malware writers target biggest market share.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/opera...10&qpcustomd=0

Very different picture on the mobile market though

https://www.netmarketshare.com/opera...10&qpcustomd=1

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Load of tosh, there are easily enough MacOS devices to make it worth writing malware for, I might have agreed - and have been published saying so - back in the early 2000's. It's way more difficult to infect any Apple OS and the majority of devices are up to date, it's the up to date bit that's important.
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Apart from Scoobynet being infected since 2000 with the Apple virus above.
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Given that there are currently over 1200 documented vulnerabilities in IOS, maybe Apple users are too dumb to notice because they believe it to be a feature and not malware?
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Originally Posted by Rob_Impreza99
Apart from Scoobynet being infected since 2000 with the Apple virus above.
Best answer.
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Originally Posted by jonc
Given that there are currently over 1200 documented vulnerabilities in IOS, maybe Apple users are too dumb to notice because they believe it to be a feature and not malware?
I'll stick to experts. You've probably had enough of them




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