Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epidemic Has Begun

Re:Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epide... by geoelectric on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:58PM (#9113945)

"If you do stick to the App Store, you have nothing to worry about. We’d love to see Apple fix some of the App Store issues and make everybody use it."

Yeah, that'd be just awesome.

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Re:Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epide... by Someone1234 on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:08PM (#9114032)

Devil's advocate here:

That could just be the default, and the user could disable it. On Windows 8/8.1 the default is for the "SmartScreen Filter" to block "unrecognised" applications from being run or installed. See their FAQ [0]. It can be disabled however.

If someone is smart enough to be installing applications from third party sources themselves, then they're smart enough to flip a switch in a Preferences panel to enable it.

However this does protect the lowest common denominator who these malware are actually targeting (i.e. computer illiterate individuals who will click ads in search results).

[0] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/smartscreen-filt...

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Re:Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epide... by geoelectric on Friday February 27, 2015 @01:33PM (#9120444)

If it can be disabled, I'm less bugged by it. It's still a lot of friction for the acceptance of open source apps and other "not really appstore-compatible" projects, though.

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