Apple quietly stops touting the fact that it has a virus-free platform

Apple quietly stops touting the fact that it has a virus-free platform
By Tecca | Today in Tech – 23 hrs ago




The half-a-trillion dollar company finally admits that its software isn't bulletproof
It's been one of the key selling points of Macs for years: Computers made by Apple simply don't get viruses, right? Well, unfortunately, recent computer virus outbreaks (yes, that's outbreaks with an "S") have proven Macs to be vulnerable, and as a result, Apple is quietly scrubbing its site of its anti-viral claims.
Formerly, the Apple website featured a section entitled "It doesn't get PC viruses," that included the line, "A Mac isn't susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers." Now, however, the site section has been changed to simply read "It's built to be safe," and touts the built-in defenses the Mac has against viruses.
It seems somewhat obvious that the Flashback virus that targeted the OS X operating system was the final straw for the Apple marketing department, but certainly, it isn't the only problem facing Macs and Mac users. According to computer security company Sophos, nearly one in five Macs are infected with Windows malware, even if the unwanted code has no effect on the computers' performances.

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thats old news, but yes, to counter that mountain lion will receive security updates without the user interaction, I havent read the article were ars details it, so dunno about the periodicity

 

give me a break.. someone wrote that to get hits... its click-bait. Apple never touted that they were perfectly safe or virus/malware free.

 

The way Apple used to say it certainly (mis)leads one to the conclusion that OSX is immune to the "thousands of *PC* viruses", cleverly it never mentioned Mac viruses.

 

There was a similar discussion a while back. Apple's terminology was technically correct as Macs aren't affected by malicious content for Windows (i.e. PC, Apple's Macs are technically personal computers but they call them Macs whereas Windows, IBM, Dell, Gateway, Acer, and everyone else calls their systems PCs and has so ever since the early Apple, Apple II, and Apple IIe days). Someone taking the extra 3 seconds to comprehend the statement would understand that just fine. Therein lies the problem though: people often read something half way through, comprehend what they want to comprehend, and move on.

That still doesn't stop the article from being nothing more than click bait to generate ad revenue.

 

Actually, I have had been to apple stores and had a slight argument with the apple advisor (i let it go..) because he said that malicious content like viruses don't exist at all for Macs and macdefenders is just a class of its own. I told him that I knew what malware was and a lot of windows security issues these days are malware too, but it seemed all that he was saying was that mac is above all that compared to "pc".

 

I know it's just an anecdote but I just did a virus sweep the other for $hits and giggles and after two years of use not one infection.

 

I do that for my windows laptops (AV and malwarebytes) and haven't have had a red flag for more than an year. I have tried other programs and even malware bytes comes up with tracking cookies (classified it as malware), but that was an year ago.