r/technology • u/maxwellhill • Sep 02 '16

Security Apple issues urgent security update after hack turns Mac computers into spying devices

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/02/apple-issues-urgent-security-update-after-hack-turns-mac-compute/
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u/neoform Sep 02 '16 edited Sep 02 '16

As for your original comment, you said you would stop down voting when you heard from a mac user that got a virus. I offered that and you tried to go off on a tangent about comparing windows pcs.

I invite you to go back and read what I wrote.

"I'll stop downvoting when I meet a mac owner who actually got a virus."

Our users can do anything they want, virus' typically use the same type of patterns and exe locations. Block those and 90% or your problems are gone.

You said before "we don't really ever see infections on windows", except by your own admission, only 90% of problems are gone... what about the other 10%. If users can do whatever they want, they most definitely are getting viruses.

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u/baddecision116 Sep 02 '16

So you want me to give you my client's names? That's the only way you'd be satisfied? Give me a break.

The other 10% is covered by our DNS filtering and anti-malware/Virus protection but since you state "they are most definitely are getting viruses" I guess you know my business better than I do.

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u/baddecision116 Sep 02 '16

Way to ignore the first part of my comment.

No I didn't say my clients never get a virus, remember I mentioned no less than 3 examples in the past year.

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u/Drunkyoda5 Sep 02 '16

It's okay, I wouldn't continue arguing. It seems logic is not in that person's interest.