http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-nuke-mac-defender-malware-with-os-x-update-24154114/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Sat, 12 May 2012 04:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-nuke-mac-defender-malware-with-os-x-update-24154114/#comment-115283 Fiosfiend Thu, 26 May 2011 14:57:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=154114#comment-115283 It is SOOOOOOO much safer than windows.  This trojan requires Mac users to input their admin password to even install it.  Where as on windows, no user interaction is even required to get this on your machine.   You can’t protect people from themselves.  If people are stupid enough to put in their admin password for some random program that pops up and wants to be installed well, there is NO system in the world that can protect you from that.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-nuke-mac-defender-malware-with-os-x-update-24154114/#comment-115171 Jason Wed, 25 May 2011 16:01:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=154114#comment-115171 I thought Apple’s biggest selling point was that it was soooo much safer than windows… I guess if you instruct your CS reps to ignore the issue and pretend it’s not there, then there’s not really a problem?

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