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For years smug Mac users have insisted that their computers were super secure because no one had written a virus for their machines.
Of course with less than five percent of the world's computers running Macs, it was pointless writing malware which would never infect a computer.
Now a new trojan has been penned that targets both Windows and Mac users. It teases its way onto computers with a link reading "Is this you in this video?"
The trojan, named trojan.osx.boonana.a, is worrying security researchers because it has the distribution ability of a PC virus but could do some serious damage to Mac users who believe that Steve Jobs' aura will pretend them from malware. Apple has been doing a sterling job convincing the world that only PCs get malware and that its computers are super secure.
The biggest problem is that Apples are extremely easy for hackers to turn over. A Mac is usually the first computer at a security conference to fall in a hacker competition.
The message "Is this you in this video?" is being distributed on Facebook and in e-mails. It hacks the Mac's password security measures.
True the computer will warn you that an applet is requesting access to your computer, to which Apple users should choose "deny." However anyone who thinks iTunes is a good idea and thinks that the iPhone 4 is brilliant technology is not likely to deny anything that comes from their Mac.
As a result they will give complete access to your computer as well as personal accounts, where the virus will extend its reach further by spamming your contacts.
Of course Apple fanboys are insisting that they are still virus free because "a trojan is not a virus" only PCs get viruses.
"it was pointless writing malware which would never infect a computer."
"Mac users who believe that Steve Jobs' aura will pretend them from malware."
"anyone who thinks iTunes is a good idea and thinks that the iPhone 4 is brilliant technology is not likely to deny anything that comes from their Mac."
"Of course Apple fanboys are insisting that they are still virus free because "a trojan is not a virus" only PCs get viruses."
What is your problem, man? Would you write the same about BeOS or QNX?
But the smug superiority and bias of the article writer just made me roll my eyes. If this is what techeye serves up as "journalism", I'll stick to other sources.
But the smug superiority and bias of the article writer just made me roll my eyes. If this is what techeye serves up as journalism, I'll stick to other sources.
I can't believe I just summed up all of the technical facts from your "article" in just a single sentence. Could you possibly have done some more research and given us some analysis? Was it just easier to make snide remarks instead?
This would have been a poor blog post but as a "technology news" article it's laughable. Also, "pretend" doesn't mean what you think it does.
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@ The Apple fanboys going "oh jesus look at the bias":
Seriously, the reason why it's so harsh towards mac users is because most of them eat up everything Steve Jobs says about their platform being secure (which it isn't even close to being). When it comes down to it, you guys probably aren't stupid, but majority of mac users are. But the same can be said of the majority of Windows. The only difference is Windows users have no disillusions when it comes to security and being spoon-fed advertising in order to think that their product is somehow superior.
Structurely I think either windows 7 or OSX can be made reasonably secure and that mac users don't have as much experience with security issues and I think its fair to level that criticism at them. They should *not* think they are immune somehow. In fact, windows users actually have the advantage of having been let down often enough that they harbor a distrust of their vendor - or at least I hope they do.