Re:Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years
by simonh on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:34PM
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'Pretty much' guarantees.
I switched to Macs back in 2007. I work in IT, have always been careful to install anti virus software on Windows machines and showed my family how to avoid click bait and dangerous downloads. Even so I frequently used to have to clean malware off my old Windows machines. We do have one windows laptop on Windows 7 which is lightly used and most recently it got infected with a Firefox toolbar extension thing a few years ago that took a week to get rid of completely.
I have never once since 2007 had to deal with a single piece of malware on any of our Macs. I know it exists, Handbrake downloads got infected a while back, but the difference is night and day. In my experience Mac OS is dramatically safer than even a fully up to date Windows machine with top tier virus protection software installed.
Maybe that's changed with recent versions of Windows. Cool. Actually the only thing that drives me potty about Macs is the keychain getting corrupted, drives me potty.
I switched to Macs back in 2007. I work in IT, have always been careful to install anti virus software on Windows machines and showed my family how to avoid click bait and dangerous downloads. Even so I frequently used to have to clean malware off my old Windows machines. We do have one windows laptop on Windows 7 which is lightly used and most recently it got infected with a Firefox toolbar extension thing a few years ago that took a week to get rid of completely.
I have never once since 2007 had to deal with a single piece of malware on any of our Macs. I know it exists, Handbrake downloads got infected a while back, but the difference is night and day. In my experience Mac OS is dramatically safer than even a fully up to date Windows machine with top tier virus protection software installed.
Maybe that's changed with recent versions of Windows. Cool. Actually the only thing that drives me potty about Macs is the keychain getting corrupted, drives me potty.