It is identical to when the Apple folks were chanting "Evil Wintel" for years to indicate the conspiracy against Apple by Windows and Intel which conspiracy coincidentally did not exist. The proof? Apple switched their PCs to Intel chips. Half of the evil Wintel conspiracy.
Funny thing about these apple fanatics and I don't mean the 90% rational apple owners. When there is no conspiracy they believe there is. When there are infections in Apple land they believe there aren't.
Man they are in full blown denial and defense mechanisms, and might as well cover their ears and shout La lalalalalalalala!
It took the Apple faithful about a month to change gears and drop the evil Wintel designator, and some still smolder about that and the way Apple left their classic software in the dust at the time they switched. For those that don?t know what I am talking about just Google ?evil wintel.?
From evil to part of the faith? LOL! Or did they do a deal with the devil?
It is the same thing with their claims about Windows infections being different, when all of them are pretty much social engineering and require several clicks to allow most of them, or opening an infected attachment.
Their misunderstanding of the term malware, and their claimed expertise in malware definitions trying to teach us, while claiming no experience with malware of any type?? Virus versus Trojan makes little difference when you are infected. And Apple folks you need to understand that those of us running Windows boxes don't get snagged by social engineering, scareware, ransomware, or any viruses or trojans already known, if we are above average users either.
If the apple faithful posting here in denial, are refugees from Window, who were constantly getting infected and now are starting to realize that they might have to actually learn more than how to turn it on and go to websites and read email, then welcome to the real world.
I don't support the 10% Windows Fanatics either. While I knew that Apple has been broached many times by experts, just like Windows, the criminals didn't want to go through all the work writing malware of any type for a small user base.
I am not happy that some of my friends who use Apple computers are now becoming targets too. The security by obscurity days are over. They should ramp up now as time goes on. You see one advantage to not having a large user base is that the script kiddies who do 90% of all malware are all familiar with Windows and haven't switched to Apple systems by and large. There are very few original top notch malware writers of original malware.
But the reality is that that obscurity has changed and as Apple systems expand their user base into the iPad markets it will behoove the criminals behind the malware to learn the system and breach it if they want to continue their ill-gotten income levels.
Most of the folks here claiming expertise don?t realize that originally malware was more benign and was a point of claiming to be the best in the cracking/hacking group. It was more about being the best programmer than stealing as it is today. With continued comments from the Apple folks they have already set up the challenge. If OSX is indeed the best OS then the malware writer who consistently cracks it will be the king of the hill so to speak. You are daring them! LOL!
Where the Windows and Apple 10%r fanatics are dead wrong is that it isn't Apple users against Windows users, and really never was except in a delusional state.
We are all the same using our personal computers, Apple or Windows based, for our families, work, and pleasure.
For me it has never been a case of envy or thinking a piece of hardware or software makes me a better person or not. As if it would.
It has always been us against the criminals. In the real world protecting our possessions, and defending our families and friends, many of us going to war to defend our shores.
You see it has always been, in the real world, us against the criminals and monsters. It is no different in the cyber world.
When the enemy is rushing your position it does no good to cover your ears and go lalalalalala against bullets. Saying that they have green coats instead of khaki won't help either. And arguing whether they are using 7.62 ammo or 5.56 only gets you killed because you are spending the time arguing that you could have put to use defending.
But that analogy is probably distasteful to some. The gated communities are the same as firewalls. The police and security guards the same as the anti-malware programs. When the criminal gets through them, then the question is do you know enough to defend yourself until you can get help? Do the right thing to avoid an infection and loss of data?
Welcome to reality Apple users.
