Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years
by oneplane on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:20PM
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While there is of course no guarantee, most of the shitstained-OS-installations that were (or still are?) so common, with symptoms like non-functional systems, ads popping up, or having 90 toolbars are due to user actions. Sure, there are methods to deliver and elevate malware, but most of the 'problems' people experienced (before widespread banking malware) were practically "cosmetic" and "slowness" and almost always due to users randomly downloading and executing anything in their path.
With iOS, that pattern is a lot harder to abuse, and with enforced sandboxing, side-effects between programs (or, 'apps') are somewhat non-existent.
Most of the things that make non-Windows systems less infected seem to either be due to a better security design, less casual users or a drastically lower market share making it a smaller target with possible less effective organic spreading of malware. (or possibly a combination of the three)
With iOS, that pattern is a lot harder to abuse, and with enforced sandboxing, side-effects between programs (or, 'apps') are somewhat non-existent.
Most of the things that make non-Windows systems less infected seem to either be due to a better security design, less casual users or a drastically lower market share making it a smaller target with possible less effective organic spreading of malware. (or possibly a combination of the three)