The Sky Is Falling: Apple Antivirus and Earphones
Posted in Random by Dan at 8:19 am
Well its a cold day in Hell when Apple both has announced thier In-Ear headphones (remember them from three months ago) will be shipping VERY shortly and Apple also recommends the use of Antivirus software.
According to Apple’s website:
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.#
Apple then recommends three antivirus packages for OS X wich you can of course buy directly from the Apple Online Store. Wonder why Apple now is pushing AV software, didn’t they say the Mac is immune from this stuff? Would you ever put AV software on a Mac?
Just because Macs are “immune” doesn’t mean that you can’t give a Windows machine a virus. Now whether you think its worth it (buying AV software) just to not infect your friends is up to you.
It’ll be a cold day in hell when i put AV software on my mac
holy bologna!, that all i can think
Nothing’s “immune”. Just a matter of a worthy target?
@Jerry
I think the latest numbers are 8% of the browser market, which may or may not include iPhones. I think 8% would be considered “worth it”.
hi there
actually this is old news go to http://www.mactech.com for the whole story . looks like someone is trying to crap on apple again
The only computer that can possibly be immune to a virus is the one that has no software, that has never been turned on. Macs may not be able to contract Windows viruses, but that doesn’t necessarily stop someone from writing a virus targeting Macs. In my opinion, the main reason that Macs do not have many viruses written to attack them is because Windows is the ‘big one’. Take down windows, and your virus will be put on the news if it becomes widespread enough.
You don’t think that a catastrophic Mac virus would make the news?
Bottom line, the knowledge to do such a thing isn’t as freely available as it is for the “other” platform and the security holes are not as abundant. We’re truly taking about Apples and Oranges here. Industrial strength software, testing and security vs. $50,000 in a pinch and using the consumer as a beta tester for years.
Bill Gates made a brilliant business decision with mediocre software, Steve Jobs leads the best people in the world to make the best products possible. It just took the latter business model a lot longer to flourish.
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10111958-12.html
they removed it.