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Raid on Russian Firm May Have Taken Down MacDefender Malware
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Yep, 2 neg ratings for that. LOL
I love your neg ratings guys. I feed off your tears, sense of entitlement, and utter frustration that OS X somehow, miraculously, after nearly a decade, still has fewer threats against it than you've got fingers on your one hand (yeah, the one you type with on your $400 hackintosh.) The nerd-rage against Apple is beautiful. Keep em coming.
Yeah, it really sucks that there are like no threats for OS X. Gotta be a negative.
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What neg ratings are you talking about?
What on earth are you talking about? And who are you talking to?
There are a handful of threats, all trojans, not zero. I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's wrong.
Thank god Vladimir Poutine was infected unless this would have never happened
Now you're making me hungry for poutine.
I have read this entire thread and I have no idea what the dicks you are talking about. I think you might need to stop and take a second for your brain, friend.
Cut off his balls I say.
No, they don't deserve what they get. Yes some people are stupid, but others are just naive. Like when the mechanic calls while servicing the car to say that there's arching on the distributor cap or the oxygen sensor is faulty and needs replacing for $250, 90% of people do not have the skill to know what to do.
I must say though that I have laughed my arse off a couple of times when I have gotten a phone call 6pm on a Saturday night from someone with an Pakistani accent who says "I am calling from Microsoft Security Centre, We have detected that you have a virus on your computer. This is a most urgent matter and you must go to http://www.whatever ASAP."
("umm I actually have only run OSX (apart from a work lap top) at home for the last 20 years you fool" I want to shout.)
It was the Romanian secret police, and poison administered by a small pellet from an umbrella tip to kill a dissident. Presumably they used KGB technology.Yep, nowhere near as bad as the Russian virus the KGB administered from the top of a brolly!
It can still be distributed by affiliates, but without the credit card processing, they won't get paid. No doubt numerous websites have been hacked to serve up various fake AVs via cross-site scripting etc, and might be active some time after the network is taken down, assuming they use hacked servers to serve up content.
Increasingly, they don't even ask for a pin or signature for relatively small amounts; and they are pushing for even more "convenient" methods using near-field communication to put in phones. Lose your phone, you not only lose your personal info to steal your ID to rake up debt, you can lose all the money from your own account too. Great.
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Maybe you weren't thinking of the guys who screwed with peoples lives. They are the ones who deserve what they get. Why does everyone seem to forget about the CRIMINALS anymore?
If I forget to lock my house, and if scumbags break into it and set it on fire, I deserve it? Is that much different than your logic?
Who said otherwise? I didn't. Arguing whether it's a trojan or a virus is completely pointless. The differences aren't important to people who just don't want something to be there.
Who are you trying to educate? Your regurgitation of other's ideas isn't helping anyone. The people who care about the differences know the differences.
It's not about arguing semantics. The difference is important to those who "just don't want something to be there" whether they know it or not, because the difference affects their course of action in defending themselves.
No, they don't. Most of the people who want to be protected from malware don't know the differences at all. They would benefit by understanding the difference, knowing what course of action is required to protect themselves. That's why education is important. People come here, looking for answers. Rather than accept the fact that people are uninformed, it's far more constructive and helpful to inform them.
If this is the worst "threat" Mac users see then I find that pretty funny
Unless it slows down or crashes your computer (ahem Windows Super Antivirus 2009 (10, 11, etc) then its just annoying. Nice that its gone though
You wouldn't it find it merely annoying if you were one of the victims and your bank account was emptied cause you put in your debit card.
A lot of older folks get hit with this kind of stuff because they are simply too naive about computers to have the instincts to say "but I never installed an anti-virus scanner so how does it know I have a virus"
Also I wouldn't be surprised if the takedown actually had nothing to do with the virus but was about something else and it was just dumb luck it was the same folks
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