New Mac Trojan installs silently, no password required

[.Neo]

I don't care what makes people switch. Apple fans seem to make out that OSX is immune to being hacked or virused, when in fact evidence suggests that if anything it's easier than Windows to exploit (Vista onwards anyway, with XP it's about a draw)

Actually, for a while now the Microsoft fanboys bring it up a lot more than Mac users do. Since we're in the business of generalizing: It's to be expected though, Windows users always seem to have more trouble letting go of the past and move on.

[John S. Veteran]

Funny, I've been unbitten on windows for almost 20...

You're the exception to the rule. A dozen years of windows on my primary boxes was more than enough.

[HawkMan]

You're the exception to the rule. A dozen years of windows on my primary boxes was more than enough.

I know a lot of exceptions then, even regular people.'

in fact, by pure numbers, I'd say the infected are the exceptions. because infection rate is far below 50%. and almost without exception all infections are caused by the user. at least today. The only time I've seen anything close to "high" infection rates was back in the dos days with anti-exe

[n_K]

What idiots are spouting rubbish here again?

Linux, not many viruses? You're either being a tool on purpose or having a laugh.

There's PLENTY of viruses for all major OS's these days; windows, mac, linux, android, wp, ios, dos, netware, unix, *bsd...

In fact it's incredibly hard to think of an OS that doesn't have viruses. Plan9 probably does, and BeOS, etc.

[Randolph]

Publicity advertising for mac OSx lion, surprised nobody has caught on