Will we fear the Windows Viruses on our Macs now?
It's only a virus if you actually install it yourself on your computer. So, you tell me, are you in the habit of installing viruses?
It's only a virus if you actually install it yourself on your computer. So, you tell me, are you in the habit of installing viruses?
It's only a virus if you actually install it yourself on your computer. So, you tell me, are you in the habit of installing viruses?
Not really. But I'm afraid that someone will add something like this to other software and that I will install it without my knowledge. Examples could be hacked sites where DMG-files are modified. wordpress.org got hacked a couple of moths ago and someone uploaded a modified version of WordPress with added security holes. That could happen to Mac software too.
No. But this virus can replicate. Isn't that a lot worse?
Well, there's no way to guard against that except regularly backing up, and only installing software from trusted sources.
If I made up a freeware program whose only function consisted of rm -f \all
and you were dumb enough to install it without knowing what it did, would you consider this a virus?
Do you have any evidence of this? If true it would indeed be worse. But that's a big if.
I haven't tried it. Don't want to. But that's what the comments stated on Pirate Bay where is was posted.