Coming soon to a MAC near you

[DiamondHead]

Originally Posted by alexora

Your statement will be 100% true once a member reports here that he or she's machine has been infected. So far there have been no such reports here.

Up to now, all we have are proof of concept reports from the security industry.

20,000 people once downloaded a version of iWork '09 via torrent that contained a OS X Trojan http://macrumors.com/2009/01/22/...g-os-x-trojan/

Originally Posted by alexora

Your statement will be 100% true once a member reports here that he or she's machine has been infected. So far there have been no such reports here.

Up to now, all we have are proof of concept reports from the security industry.

Yeah, because all Apple tech reports are confirmed here first.

On Feb. 26, analysts at the security firm Sophos found a Trojan, called “OSX/MusMinim-A,” hiding malicious software rigged specifically to allow a hacker to remotely attack Apple’s popular OS X operating system.

Where did they find it, my friend...?
Nobody would create a Trojan to attack then leave it in Steve Job's desk.

Give it up, you have a mere mortal for a computer like the rest of us...
albeit a horribly overpriced one.
Now take the naked posters of Steve off your wall and enjoy the rest of your life.
The Cult of Apple is fallible like everything else in life.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by DiamondHead

20,000 people once downloaded a version of iWork '09 via torrent that contained a OS X Trojan http://macrumors.com/2009/01/22/...g-os-x-trojan/

Yes, but not one of those 20,000 people has posted in this thread.

If you view the opening post of this thread, you will see that I started it precisely because of virus/trojan reports.

All I asked was for any infected member to relate his experience here.

It's been 26 months, and this has yet to happen.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by PatrynXX

it's always their false sense of security that gets them. Linux.. also have an anti virus running for that but harder to find anti malware for it. kinda runs in the background on ubuntu..... But Apple. stuck up and it sure ain't free. Running an apple means one can afford just about anything. Ahem unless one bumped into the sales on geeks. Brother got an old Aqua with OS 9 installed. Upgraded to OS X Tiger but the hard drive would never accept the firmware. Don't know why now the things in a storage unit outside of town. He did a fairly good job gluing it back together (why else would they offer a G3 for $50. It was a desktop too. ) OS 9 ran good enough but supposedly OS X was supposed to run on it. SO he has this free copy of Tiger not being used (thru a University program)

Aqua is not a computer: it's the Mac OSX main visual theme.

I am assume when you say your Brother "got an old Aqua", you are referring to the Bondi Blue iMac from 1998:

I still have mine (I also have an orange one), it runs fine, but anyone knows its specs mean it cannot really run OSX, let alone Tiger.
All Mac OSX versions have an easy to look up list of supported hardware: one should check this list before buying a used machine, or upgrading the OS on theirs.

I am considering tranforming my old iMac by removing the crt and all the insides and replacing them with a flat screen and one of my spare Mac Minis, just for the fun of it. Either that, or turn it into a fish tank..

Originally Posted by alexora

Yes, but not one of those 20,000 people has posted in this thread.

If you view the opening post of this thread, you will see that I started it precisely because of virus/trojan reports.

All I asked was for any infected member to relate his experience here.

It's been 26 months, and this has yet to happen.

By the way, I have this lovely bridge for sale over the East River in New York.
Would you be interested in buying it..?

[alexora]

I'm based in the UK, and as far as I know, it is British bridges that get sold to Americans, not the other way 'round...



That is the old London Bridge, now on Lake Havasu. Someone once told me (probably bullshit) that it was purchased by mistake: they though they were buying Tower Bridge instead!

[PatrynXX]

Originally Posted by alexora

Yes, but not one of those 20,000 people has posted in this thread.

If you view the opening post of this thread, you will see that I started it precisely because of virus/trojan reports.

All I asked was for any infected member to relate his experience here.

It's been 26 months, and this has yet to happen.

maybe steve jobs won't let them :P he does have a thing against porn ;0

[PatrynXX]

Originally Posted by alexora

I'm based in the UK, and as far as I know, it is British bridges that get sold to Americans, not the other way 'round...



That is the old London Bridge, now on Lake Havasu. Someone once told me (probably bullshit) that it was purchased by mistake: they though they were buying Tower Bridge instead!

well if sc*tt wa**er in Wi*con*in has any say, maybe they'll end up in that state. (okay I didn't say anything ..... although Alexora probably agrees it should be included at PS. I just think one thread is enough..... one knows full well what tension one is getting into when they join it :P )

[DiamondHead]

Originally Posted by alexora

Yes, but not one of those 20,000 people has posted in this thread.

If you view the opening post of this thread, you will see that I started it precisely because of virus/trojan reports.

All I asked was for any infected member to relate his experience here.

It's been 26 months, and this has yet to happen.

Most mac user are either too intellectual or too scared to be surfing a website that may feature a naked lady!, 199 out of the 200 people worldwide that actually use a mac, only surf websites dedicated to classical music or biochemistry

[alexora]

That's bollocks: people like porn regardless of what OS they are running.

Also, I have it on good authority that when Dr House surfs pornsites at work, he does it on a Mac:

You Tube

You Tube

Also, there is some research that shows many Mac users keep a PC just to surf for porn, so as to keep their Mac clean.

I pity them as they haven't obviously adopted the alexora method of keeping their Macs clean.