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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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