CACR: MacDefender shows Apple users no longer immune from cyberattacks

Posted by rickdale on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:20AM
from the physorg.com dept.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-cacr-macdefender-apple-users-longer.html

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Re:CACR: MacDefender shows Apple users no longer immune from... by tobylane on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:01AM (#2583542)

They say MacDefender is scareware, aka phishing, aka relying on user stupidity to enter the admin password when it asks for it. That's not vunerable, that's doing what the user told it to do.

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Re:CACR: MacDefender shows Apple users no longer immune from... by spravtek on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:38AM (#2583509)

Immune ... Ha! Apple computers where never immune. The attacks were just not as common, and still aren't, compared to Windows computers.

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