A Nonny Moose Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Kindly descend from your ivory tower please The "evidence" only points to a serious disinterest in Mac OS from viruswriters.If you take all the trouble to write a virus, then you would choose a group as large as possible to cause damage to. And Windows marketshare is by far larger than Mac OS, so why would anybody, who does not wish to show a proof of concept, want to write a virus for Mac OS? The notion in itself is laughable, for the moment. Writing a virus, is mostly wanting to create havoc, for which you need as many potential victims as possible They just do not care Yeah, what's the joy in infecting only 7,000,000 computer users (Mac users, btw)? Looks like a pretty nice target to me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46151-mac-os-x-vulnerabilities-underplayed/page/2/#findComment-337021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvira Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 A agree with A Nonny Moose. It seems rather unbelievable that no one—no one—has succesfully made a Mac OS X virus. It's been years now, and we got nothing (outside of "proof of concept" uselessness). I can understand that not many people want to make a Mac virus, for all the reasons given here. But none? None? So many of you express irritation about Apple users' smugness, and you think that there aren't any virus makers/script kiddies who don't feel the same way, and that a few wouldn't want to wipe the smug expressions off our faces? Just one? Come on. Like others here, I'll never say that Mac OS X is invulnerable. I don't think we can say that we'll never get a virus. But I do find it hard to swallow that disinterest is the only thing keeping the Mac OS X viruses at bay. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46151-mac-os-x-vulnerabilities-underplayed/page/2/#findComment-338267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soliber Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Yeah, what's the joy in infecting only 7,000,000 computer users (Mac users, btw)? Looks like a pretty nice target to me. Like you said, no joy You see, the biggest threat for us, has always been script kiddies. They take the code from people who knew what they we're doing, and just use it. They hardly make any modifications at all. So the fact being that there are a boatload more viruscodes out there based on Windows, they wouldn't be bothered to try and adapt them to Linux or Mac OS (if that's even decently possible), and they can't write a new one themselves. The actual viruswriters prefer to focus on Windows PC's because there are just só much more of them. Noony Nose said something about 7 mil Macs. K thats about 2 to 3 times as many people as we have here in tiny Belgium. To put things into perspective, on a world map, Belgium is about the size of my pinkie... K so what about the rest of the world? Believe you me, 7 mil Macs put against all the Windows PC's is peanuts. Besides: either you want to create chaos, and then I'd prefer all those Windows boxes across the globe, which are most of the time whofully underprotected, especially in 3d world countries and the likes, above the 7 mil Macs which are also whofully underprotected most of the time (here, protection=firewall, antivirus and stuff). Or you'd want to create botnets, and then I'd still go for all those wofully underprotected Windows boxes, since numbers count in a botnet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46151-mac-os-x-vulnerabilities-underplayed/page/2/#findComment-338310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBits Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Sure... thats what we are talking here... windows is easier to exploit and make viruses, botnets etc... than OSX its not about userbase as i explained few posts up... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46151-mac-os-x-vulnerabilities-underplayed/page/2/#findComment-338328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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