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 tracker1 on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:13PM (#9115532)

Most adware/malware are trojan horses... I don't think anyone is implying different... the fact of the matter is, it's annoying, and it's as effective against OSX users as it is with Windows users... or possibly more so.

I don't install too much outside a package manager in any OS... just the same, it is a pretty significant issue.

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Re:Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epide... by coldtea on Thursday February 26, 2015 @06:41PM (#9116338)

>just the same, it is a pretty significant issue.

Not sure how significant. Haven't seen anything in the wild on OS X -- and I do install lots outside of package managers...

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Re:Mac OS X Isn’t Safe Anymore: The Crapware / Malware Epide... by tracker1 on Friday February 27, 2015 @02:40PM (#9120841)

I've seen a few nasty browser trojans on OSX installs with friends/family... it's really weird to see them actually... one I noticed/found when I asked a friend to pull something up on amazon and saw extra ads...

A few on windows are doing transparent proxies, which are pretty nasty (not just the lenovo one).

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