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My MAC has a virus?

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So I just got a pop up on telling me that my PC has a virus. For one, I don't have a PC, but I thought Mac's weren't supposed to get viruses?! I've only had this for a few weeks so I find it unlikely. Is it just trying to get me to buy spyware or whatever?
 
It was probably made by it's designer to look like a Windows window, too - they usually are. As jav1231 says, it's just a bogus web page/popup. Close it and get back to ... whatever you were doing ... ;)
 
Hold on. It's not impossible for a Mac to get a virus. It's not as likely, but the sole reason mac's don't have as many viruses, is because the Majority of computers in the world run Windows. Why make a virus for the minority?

Be careful.
 
CorporalAris said:
Hold on. It's not impossible for a Mac to get a virus. It's not as likely, but the sole reason mac's don't have as many viruses, is because the Majority of computers in the world run Windows. Why make a virus for the minority?

Be careful.
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Well, that and the majority of Windows machines are used in corporations and businesses, so there's more incentive for viruses.
 
Of course it is not impossible, but in this case - yep it's probably some bogus popup.
 
Now I understand that there are still people who fall for those fake virus alerts. Unfortunately ](*,)
 
Keeland said:
Right. It has nothing to do with OS X's Unix foundation and Apple designing its OS from the ground up to ward off viruses.
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So you mean the iPhone OS was not built to be unhackable? Ooops ..

Of course this plays a part in it. But so does the popularity.
 
There are enough windows PCs that there is no need to put that much time/energy into breaking a more secure system.

But the iPhone (still) is a different story, very popular and very "closeted". And that's why there was that much interest in breaking it.

Compare HD DVD and bluray. Nobody bothered to crack HD DVD encryption. But it was great fun to watch how the freaks on doom9 were reverse engineering trap after trap in cracking bluray :)
 
umm .. bluray was the way more popular format.
that's what I am saying.
doom9 is a forum about video codecs and video encoding which a lot of developers and hackers frequent.
i don't see the connection ..
 
I think there's a conspiracy of anti-virus companies having a secret section which creates and distributes viruses and malware in order to sell more anti-virus/malware scanner software!

Just a theory.
 
braex27 said:
I think there's a conspiracy of anti-virus companies having a secret section which creates and distributes viruses and malware in order to sell more anti-virus/malware scanner software!

Just a theory.
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And the viruses they didn't write, they just hire the person who did write it.
 
actually it would be a dream job for me to work at in an antivirus lab. it's really cool they can spend almost all their time hacking the viruses, reverse engineering rootkits, tracking down control servers etc ... I would love it.
 
Corny said:
actually it would be a dream job for me to work at in an antivirus lab. it's really cool they can spend almost all their time hacking the viruses, reverse engineering rootkits, tracking down control servers etc ... I would love it.
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You know what you need to do then :)
 
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