Why can't Apple into security?
>APFS
B-but Mac OS X is virus proof
>>55071385
Maybe but it's really easy to hack.
>>55071370
Maccuckolds on suicide watch
>>55071385
Osx isnt virus proof.
If you were a hacker who creates a virus, your goal is to infect as much computer as you can, regarding the marketshare there are a lot of computers with windows, and there is only about 10percent osx computers and the others. Ofc you will target the windows ones.
Simply there should be a lot of viruses on others systems but no one develops a virus for it.
>>55071370
Windows 8.1: 151
Windows 8: 146
Windows 7: 147
Windows server 2008: 149
151+146+147+149= 593 > 384
OS X has 2 times less vulnerabilities than Windows.
>>55072354
Kek xD
Since they based on the same nt kernel theres a lot which can be found both so, it is in fact about 160 and not the sum of them
>>55072330
I'm legitimately unsure why they haven't started writing cryptolocker for Macs. They've got a reasonable % of market share in business these days and the same sort of SMB mapping usually in place.
Your average OSX user is not only every bit as likely to click on some stupid email link and download your_bill.exe, but they are so ingrained with the "Macs are more secure" mentality they think they are bullet proof and often sit there trying to run sorts of things to prove a point.
Being "more secure" means nothing for cryptolocker, where are users deliberately runs an executable and hits "yes" at every fucking prompt.
>>55072486
>I'm legitimately unsure why they haven't started writing cryptolocker for Macs
They have. There are cryptolockers for OS X.
>>55072498
source?
I've often sat there and read through to hundred+ quarantined emails we have in an afternoon, and they absolutely always contain a link like http://wreger.ru/32rewgrq/electricitycompany/yourbill.exe
>>55072373
and os x is based off bsd one (mach)
>>55072498
There currently is no ransomware that can affect a Mac that works in the way CryptoLocker and other such software that plagues Windows.
In Windows, your data is literally encrypted by malware that automatically gets on your system (the way a lot of such malware does in Windows) when visiting a web site purposely set up to do just that, or an email attachment that gets the malware download started when you open it. They only way to get your data back, other than from a recent backup, is to pay the ransom fee to get the decryption key.
In OS X, the best the crooks have been able to come up with is a JavaScript trick. When you hit one of these pages, it shows a popup that makes some sort of claim your computer is infected. Many times, with complete nonsense text that your "Windows" OS is infected (you're not running Windows), "Norton Anti-Virus" has detected xxx (you don't even have Norton AV installed), "Windows Defender" has detected xxx (again, impossible to have Windows only software running on your Mac), and other giveaway's that scream "scam".
For all of these scam sites, your Mac has not been infected with anything. Period. Nothing has even been downloaded to your Mac. It's just a matter of clearing the page Safari is locked to by the JavaScript loop.
>>55072542
the first ransomware for mac appeared this year. Of course it requires the user to install a DMG, and enable unsigned apps from running their machine. While it couldn't lock out the whole machine like on windows, it can encrypt all the files the current user has access too. If these files aren't on icloud or google drive, they'll be lost.
Mac ransomware exists, but only really fucking retards will be able to use it
>>55072707
>implying macfags aren't really fucking stupid
>>55072354
you're stupid.
>>55072486
Yes thats true, so there are a lot of users who opens anyhing.mp3.exe and others, so basically if you dont have some idea what are the basics of a system, its an easy target for viruses.
Despite those vulnerabilities no one is going to bother attacking it because so few use it. Also, pretty much no macfag uses antivirus so they don't know they are infected anyway so they will happily buy another mac because they never noticed ang malware.
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