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Re:Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epide... by coldcode on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:02PM (#9113989)
I've been a Mac developer since 1984 and the last time I ever saw a virus was 1988 I think. It's not impossible to get irritation-ware if you download random crap from these download sites but genuine malware is extremely difficult to produce. Saying "Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epidemic Has Begun" is beyond stupid.
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Re:Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epide... by lawnchair_larry on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:10PM (#9114051)
By "difficult to produce", do you mean difficult to find? If you mean difficult to develop, it's actually very straight forward, and no different from Windows.
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