Is the mac so safe now?

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Originally Posted by BlackVenom

You're a noob CodeX, lol, these things pop up randomly - they don't last and the do practically no damage. : D

Mac won't always be safe, it will get fucked when it becomes the majority.

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uh, it will be very difficult for macs to get fucked by a "virus" thanks to the way unix is built

Any idiot who can get a virus on a PC can get one on a mac.

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Originally Posted by angrybanana90210

Any idiot who can get a virus on a PC can get one on a mac.

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Exactly. If the user of the PC isn't an idiot and knows what they are doing it is hard to get infected with a virus.

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Originally Posted by angrybanana90210

Any idiot who can get a virus on a PC can get one on a mac.

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Not necessarily. The primary way of getting viruses on Macs is via torrents & pirated software. People don't set traps for macs, they do it for PC. It would take that idiot a long time to succeed in failing on a Mac.

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Originally Posted by B1G_BR0TH3R

uh, it will be very difficult for macs to get fucked by a "virus" thanks to the way unix is built

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Again, not necessarily. As I said when the majority of the world is using Mac the majority of the skids and hackers will be too. If it has a line of code it can be hacked, reversed, and fucked.

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Originally Posted by BlackVenom

Not necessarily. The primary way of getting viruses on Macs is via torrents & pirated software. People don't set traps for macs, they do it for PC. It would take that idiot a long time to succeed in failing on a Mac.



Again, not necessarily. As I said when the majority of the world is using Mac the majority of the skids and hackers will be too. If it has a line of code it can be hacked, reversed, and fucked.

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if it wants to do anything of any type of importance and not run in "userland" it will need to be root, how do you get to be root? IT NEEDS YOUR PASSWORD WHICH IT CAN'T GET UNLESS IT ASKS YOU FIRST, don't anybody fucking attempt to say "well hell, you could just get the password file and decrypt it" IT WON'T WORK THE KEY TO DECRYPT IT IS IN THE KEYCHAIN WHICH NEEDS A PASSWORD TO BE ACCESSED. If a program has an exploit it needs to be running as root if it wants to do any type of damage, and not many programs run as root. or it could install the "virus" when you install the program, however any idiot could easily see it, all you have to do is go into finder and hit the today button under search for then ta freaking da you can see everything opened, created, or modified in the past day

i feel almost postive now that my mac has some sort of infection, it runs ALOT slower than what it used to when i first purchased it, and often overheats to some extreme temperatures (not sure if that has anything to do with it)
i have sufficient space remaining (80 gb) so its not like that is an issue.
macbook pro. and i'm upset with its current performance

Don't forget about the javascript exploit that they can inject this with for macs

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Originally Posted by Imagine.+

i feel almost postive now that my mac has some sort of infection, it runs ALOT slower than what it used to when i first purchased it, and often overheats to some extreme temperatures (not sure if that has anything to do with it)
i have sufficient space remaining (80 gb) so its not like that is an issue.
macbook pro. and i'm upset with its current performance

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you just have too much crap laying on the desktop

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Originally Posted by B1G_BR0TH3R

you just have too much crap laying on the desktop

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i dont have anything on my desktop
literally, nothing

Whats the sense of arguing over an operating system(s)?