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Originally Posted by the_flood502  Typical Mac user conversation about BSOD and Viruses:
Idiot:"OMGZ i've just had the BSOD. Shitty windows... Macs never have this kind of problem"
Dean: "no... they have WORSE problems... at least BSOD isn't fatal (always)... i suggest you look up 'Kernal Panic' you'll find it actually DESTROYS the operating system and most of the files... and this is BEFORE you've even insalled the operating system (mainly while upgrading MacOSX to a different version)"
Idiot: "right... but macs don't get viruses"
Dean "there's a reason why you're called idiot... macs have viruses, contrary to what the apple advertisements would have you belive... they only have a handful admitedly... but... think about it... if you were a virus programmer you're going to make viruses for systems that are going to affect the majority... (10 people own macs for every 10000 that own a WinPC)... i know which one i'd program for."
Idiot: "..."
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Mac users... they think they know everything because they're 'safe' and 'stable' LOL and when you prove them wrong they remain awfully silent... |
I have had many a similar conversation. No system is 100% safe. Even Red Hat had a huge OpenSSH problem with their servers. As far a viruses go, I've seen some pretty nasty stuff. The viruses I used for the tests in my security review a friend of mine actually had. He kept them locked away on a "safe" sector of his hard drive, burned that sector to a disk, and gave it to me to run tests on. It was interesting to purposely infect a computer. ;-)