Help please

[Pritz23]

What does this mean does my new macbook pro has virus or just funny business site

 

[Meister]

There are no viruses for OS X.

Do not push anything on that page. Close the tab.
Clean browser history and cookies. Never visit that page again.

 

[Cuniac]

There are no viruses for OS X.

Do not push anything on that page. Close the tab.
Clean browser history and cookies. Never visit that page again.

That's not entirely accurate, but its probably not. It looks like it was a popup from a web site. Do what he said with the clearing of your browser and you'll probably be fine.

 

[Meister]

That's not entirely accurate,

Really?
Source a virus for OSX, please.

 

[sebseb]

Yeah it's just a pop up and sometimes scam. Use other porn "cough" websites...

 

[ZBoater]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/mac-virus-apple_n_1625110.html

 

[Cuniac]

Really?
Source a virus for OSX, please.

Yes, any computer can get a virus if a someone really puts the time into making one. Macs don't have a lot of viruses, really very few, but some do exist. Macs are more susceptible to Malware than viruses but both are somewhat rare. As secure as Macs are it is a good idea to still use anti virus software. Apple does a grate job of protecting us from most threats but no computer is every truly safe.

 

[Meister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/mac-virus-apple_n_1625110.html

Nowhere does it say in that article that there is a virus for OSX.

Yes, any computer can get a virus if a someone really puts the time into making one. Macs don't have a lot of viruses, really very few, but some do exist. Macs are more susceptible to Malware than viruses but both are somewhat rare. As secure as Macs are it is a good idea to still use anti virus software. Apple does a grate job of protecting us from most threats but no computer is every truly safe.

Provide a source for your claim! Name a Mac virus!

 

[ZBoater]

You are going to split hairs now and say a trojan is not a virus?

 

[Fredn3ck]

I'll just drop this here, yawl keep drinking that cool-aid.

http://thehackernews.com/2015/06/mac-osx-rootkit-malware.html

 

[Cuniac]

Here is yet another link http://www.kaspersky.com/internet-security-center/threats/mac

 

[Meister]

You are going to split hairs now and say a trojan is not a virus?

A trojan is certainly not a virus.

You can easily avoid trojans by simply not executing unknown files from the internet.
That does not work with viruses.

Here is yet another link http://www.kaspersky.com/internet-security-center/threats/mac

Again not a single virus mentioned in this link.

I'll just drop this here, yawl keep drinking that cool-aid.

http://thehackernews.com/2015/06/mac-osx-rootkit-malware.html

That one is only a week old, but also very interesting. Good one!