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New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update

Posted by samzenpus on from the +1-or-better-update-to-hit dept.

XxtraLarGe writes "Apple released a security update yesterday designed to rid Macs of the menacing MacDefender malware that has plagued users for nearly a month. But mere hours after the update, cyber-criminals released a new variant of the malware that easily defeated Apple's belated security efforts. That didn't take long."

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  1. Mac users, start crying from nostalgia by xavdeman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mac OS Update Detects, Kills MacDefender Scareware New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update ATTN. Mac fanbois, security through the obscurity of your OS, IS OVER. You're going to be facing the same, if not worse problems than Windows users have been battling for years. Worse, because your userbase expects things to "Just Work(tm)". And Apple has been marketing the impenetrability of their OS through the roof. Virus makers have finally risen to the challenge, and Mac users should cower in fear, for their lazy days are over*. *at least concerning OS security. Of course they will still be lazy college drop-outs and pretentious "hipsters".

  2. Yeah... by denzacar · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It should have been something like iProtect, iAntivirus or AppleGuard or something.
    What are they coming to when they can't even get their developers to use the proper naming scheme?

    Just another proof that Apple is no longer a proper computer business but a shiny-pocket-widget and things-for-your-shiny-pocket-widgets shop.
    Or was that a shiny-pocket-widget and things-for-your-shiny-pocket-widgets store?

    --
    Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
  3. Re:Any first hand experience? by jo_ham · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Translation: I'm a friendless neckbeard living in my mom's basement on Mountain Dew and Cheetos and am jealous of all those "hipster" kids with their friends and "cool" gadgets. Girls don't seem to appreciate I compiled my own kernel!

    See, I can generalise too!

    (seriously, I cannot see how you got to where you were from the OP's question, which had no grandstanding or platform flaming or anything, just a query about an issue that is apparently "widespread" and "menacing" (according to the article) on OS X.

    This style of "FTFY" post is just tiresome and belongs back in high school kid.