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I doubt it is a real Mac news site. I have never heard of it before. And it looks like it was designed by IT guys, visually speaking. They should really know better.

Expect more.. the drum beat from the drive by Windows MS appologist press has only begun.

Wait until Apple starts really sinking its teeth into Windows marketshare...

MDN keyword "nothing" as in be surprised by nothing you read in the MS propaganda press.

"Part of the problem lies in the Web browser that many Mac users rely upon -- Internet Explorer"

Okaaaayyy... This Paller guy obviously has no idea what he's talking about.

MDN, I found your stats interesting. As I am one of those IE have to use Windows at work people. I visit here more from work than home. Only 6%, that is pretty good!

What a bunch of crap that story is. It really ticks me off because many folks will believe it.

I can't tell you how many virus issues i have had with my various mac over the past 10 years . . . . .

Because I have not had any.

I sure know a handful of Windows Slaves that have had them though

MDN Magic Word: Taken

If you belive this, you've been taken.

This is a real . .






Oh sorry, I had to restart

Onslaught? WTF?

Does IE even work for the Intel Macs? Mine doesn't seem to do much more than beachball and render half a page. That product isn't even supported anymore. Apple needs to build a script that checks for IE on every startup and remove it without permission.

At my mega-corporation we do not see users with Mac-IE. A handfull of poor souls with Mac OS 9 are still out there, bless them.

A "surge" of attacks? The only surge I know of is the surge of Windows users switching to Mac.

Yep, the only time I use IE is at work.

"designed by IT guys"

That kinda sounds like the oxymoron "Military Intelligence". Most IT guys I know don't even know what design is, or they hate Mac users because a lot of them are designers and they know they could never be one.

OH MY GOD!!! MY MAC IS DYING BECAUSE WINDOWS PUNDITS SAY SO!

OH MY GOD!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?????

Wait a minute..my mac has been online 24/7 for 4 years (except for the occasional hurricane outtage) and it has never been attacked by hackers or adware. That is it hackers attack when there are hurricanes!!!

I understand now!! I GOT IT! Okay everybody here is what we do. a) Disconnect your Mac from the internet whenever there is a hurricane over Miami. This is obviously when the hackers attack. b) Ask the honest hard working Windows pundits to run their OS X tests outside of hurricane season too so we can get average year round vuneralbility numbers.

Please tell everyone you know not to run their Macs when there is a hurricane over Miami. Also use Microsoft products b/c they do not ever succumb to 3rd rate hacker attacks.

Yeah, right. An "onslaught"! I see it every day - NOT!

This guy probably has Symantec stock or something.

It's almost time to call IE "Internet Exploiter"? Almost time? Then criticize Firefox?

Where do the Mac users come into any of this? They talk about huge Windows threats, but I don't see the Mac threats.

What does this have to do with the Mac?

"...an exposé on how it's likely going to pour rain every day in Phoenix...

To see if it's "going to pour rain every day in Phoenix", I use Dashboard, which I am told is Exposé for widgets. It scrolls like butter!

Obviously this is run by PC users. There is an article from Enderle at the bottom. Plus read all of the "struggles to keep away from viruses" article titles. No Mac user with common sense would put that...at least not without being sarcastic.

there's an Internet Explorer for Mac?! since when? i've never used it...

The software this article is advertising doesn't even work on the Mac.

"hitech@upi.com"

Sweet! Go get him MDN crowd!

I would like to publicly apologize for using IE to visit your site -- but, during the day, that's all I'm allowed to use while at the office.

An "onslaught"? "Surge"? Where? Show me, I wanna see!

The only HACKS I know of are the HACKS that keep repeating this virus, spyware BS.

SO Microsoft has all of its media cronies throwing FUD bombs. Why? They figured it works well for the DNC, so let's employ the same strategery.

Now what have we learned about the accuracy of the mainstream press, boys and girls? Remeber this the next time some journalist tells you about "tax cuts for the rich" or "global warming" or anything else that leaks from their pens.

Here is the straight poop on the owner of this domain:

Whois Record

Registrant:
ECT News Network
15821 Ventura Blvd.
Suite 625
Encino, CA 91436
US

http://www.ectnews.com

This is a Microsoft FUD network. Spread the news that these peeps are foos.

Hey ev'ryone, I just read this on that totally PC-biased website with the horrible name of macnewsworld. It's from Feb, when a sheeplike reporter named Erika Morphy wrote a quote from your typical scaremongering Symantec guy:

"[recent] events have encouraged the Macintosh community to talk more about malware, viruses and other online threats, which I think is a healthy discussion and one that is often dismissed too quickly," Mike Romo, an anal. .

Hello all,

I went to the article and even checked out the super software he recommended to help Macs get protected from the malware he was describing.

The software requires a PC running Windows XP. Hmmmm. Can you say: "Has not got a clue!" ?

N.

Can anyone explain whether a rootkit can infect a Mac without the malefactor having physical access to the computer?

"Browser that mac users rely on is internet what"???
I don't think so Tim, try again. Mac users use Firefox or Safari. What onslaught? What teenager wrote this crap? Well you did a bad job and need to really know what you're talking about before writing it. FUD!!!

Sloppy.. you beat me to it. good job.

I recently used IE. I did it because my kids, who have only ever used Safari or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefoxhad never heard of Internet Explorer so I fired it up (on Virtual PC in Wondows 2000) on my Powerbook. It was an interesting history lesson for them.

WINDOWS VIRUS PROBLEM SOLVED WITH MACBOOK PRO!! (and other Macs with Intel)

it doesn't ship with Windows Explorer!

Sloppy Seconds: your comment would be funny if you were Stephen Colbert.

But you are not Stephen Colbert.

Hello Kiddies. Please sit down. Today we're going to learn something new:

Here is a quote from macnewsword dot com: "Malware attacks targeting Mac OS X are on the rise. They reached 143 last year from 45 in 2003 -- a 228 percent increase over the past three years -- according to findings from McAfee Avert Labs."

Now, Kiddies, the writer needs to learn that the words "attacks targeting" do not mean "attacks which penetrated". This is the same in any fight: just because you attack does not mean you win.

And another quote:
"The Mac has never been 'more secure' or 'less secure' than a Windows operating environment," [David Marcus, security research and communications manager for McAfee] told MacNewsWorld. Rather, he said, it has just been lucky -- at least up until recently.

This, Kiddies, is an example of what we call FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. And another new word for you, "Misinformation".

Now for your practical lessons, go turn on those PCs that our Principal forced us to buy and go find out what real viruses and malware are all about.

I was building a website the other day and wanted to use CSS to make a shadow effect behind a picture. So, I looked around online and got something that rendered correctly on Safari. Then I thought I should try it with some other browsers, so I tried Firefox - looked the same as Safari, then tried OmniWeb 4 (not even the most recent version) - looked the same as the previous two browswers, then tried IE 5.5 on the Mac - surprisingly, it looked the same as the three previous browsers, then I went to IE on a Windows machine - it didn't look anywhere close to what it should look like and didn't even render the shadows.

Here is a link to the example:
http://homepage.mac.com/reedkb/shadow/index.html

It rendered correctly on:
Safari
Firefox
OmniWeb
IE 5.5 on Mac

It did not render correctly on:
IE 6 on Windows

Not that anyone I know still uses IE on the Mac, but if you did, you'd still be ahead of anyone using IE on Windows....

Am I not supposed to use Firefox @work to access MDN? Uhoh.

.77% Camino? Are you kidding? Even Mac users don't use the best.

"if you want to be a good network citizen and help protect Windows sufferers from their operating system's inability to do so properly"

Hmmm. Why should I want to do that?

What a stupid article.

First, to say that "phishing" and "ID thieves" are part of OS security is retarded. Second, the "surge" in attacks? All less-than-you-can-count on one hand? Right. Third, the article then goes into talking about viruses and lumps OSX in with Windows. Talk about intentionally misleading the reader.

Complete and utter shit,

I can count the number of trojans — that's 'viruses' to the dumbasses — on one hand.

And, as one of the digits on my hand is a thumb — well, do the math Einsteins!

Now there's some humans that need to be killed.

Oooops. I meant shutdown.

Onslaught defined in two different worlds:

Windows - nuclear explosions
Mac - pea shooter

Windows - hurricane
Mac - slight breeze

Windows - all pipes busting and home filling with water
Mac - one drop from the faucet

Windows - complete exsanguination from hundreds of deep stab wounds
Mac - a tiny, tiny paper cut

Remember, IE is pronounced, "AAAAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEE ! ! ! ! !"

OH!
I Understand now!!!!

So because I use a browser created by, and for, Windows, and there is a "decline in the critical vulnerabilities found in Windows", that must mean that my operating system has CRITICAL VULNERABILITYS!

such freaken' crap


this person really needs to look both ways before crossing the damn street

I don't know... Its like these scaremongers are begging the virus creators to start doing their thing on the Mac or something.

What I really don't like is that, the several non-Mac users who come to sites like MDN read this crap and maybe get the impression that we Mac users are careless free-for-allers that take no precautions.

I know for a fact that by the time OS 9 was on its way out there were a dozen or so verified bugs, a couple of which could do real damage. Even so we've got to have some perspective here -

THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE EXPONENTIALLY MORE VIRUSES, AND MORE, MORE VIRULENT ONES, FOR THE WINDOWS PLATFORM - PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE.

Even IF there were any real viruses (Yet) for OS X/Intel, why would that be a bigger deal than what Windows users deal with now. They just deal with it, or have somebody else deal with it for them. Why all the hooplah over viruses on Intel/Macs?

BECAUSE ALL VERSIONS OF WINDOWS, INCLUDING VISTA, ARE RIDDLED WITH FULLY EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES - MANY TIMES OVER. MS and ALL of its many many minions are desparate to remove negative attention from themselves.

Honestly, the first real virus/malware to hit OS X, I think the first place we look is to the individuals and organizations originating this would-be intimidation.

When the "Virus" ad talks about the 114K viruses out there for PCs, they only affect PCs...NOT MACS! The commercial isn't saying there are no viruses for Macs (or that there never will be), but there are 114K that Mac users won't have to worry about.

Oh, and for anti-virus I use Intego Virus Barrier, made by Mac users for Mac users...

Well, I registered at their dumb website just so I could post a reply in their Talkback forum. I guess I was going to be the first post since there were none already there. Anyway, I posted a polite but blunt rebuttal of his article.... and they never allowed it to see the light of day! The article has been up almost all day now and there is only ONE comment posted.

I'm really not all that surprised considering all the FUD that's going on there.

Most of the quotes in the article come from one press release.
http://www.sanasecurity.com/press/pressreleases/041806.php
In the original release there is no mention of Apple, Macs or OS X.

The "Free trial software" that is linked to , and talked about for the last few paras....... is PC only !!

This is Fud with a capital F.

The article has a talkback feature. Go to it guys!

oops. I use a Mac all day at work (Thank God!), but I have a Citrix MetaFrame account (Windows) on it and I use IE in it to hit the MDN site several times every day. And my entire lunch break. I just use that b/c it's easier, but now that I know that the IE is being counted, I'll put FireFox on the Mac and use that instead. It was just laziness.

"Mac users are facing an onslaught of security threats"

*** Stop right there and read no further.

@neomonkey ".77% Camino? Are you kidding? Even Mac users don't use the best."

*** I was suprised as well - LESS than 1%? These people don't know what they are missing! Camino is incredible! People should at least give it a try, you can always trash it if you don't like it.

http://www.caminobrowser.org

@just2me "Oh, and for anti-virus I use Intego Virus Barrier, made by Mac users for Mac users... (emphasis added)"

*** Ok, now I know you must be a company rep. This is about the 5th time you have used that exact same statement in about a week. I'm not personally knocking Intego, but come on.....

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Ich beende Rechtschreibungnazin
http://www.caminobrowser.org

The last time I had a virus on a Macintosh was in the days of System 6 and floppy diskettes. OMG, I must be ancient! I must say, though, it has been a while since I have had to tread through such technological bullshit, WAIST HIGH!!!!!