Comments on: How to Protect Yourself from Mac OS X Trojans

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:41:00 +0000

It’s heard that Mac is very safe:P But now Mac users still need to protect their OS from viruses.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:15:00 +0000

the trohans are so boring and we should remove them the moment we found it

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:51:00 +0000

Enjoy reading your post! Keep going!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:03:00 +0000

this is a helpful article and thanks a lot…

By: soced

soced — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:34:30 +0000

mm…as for me I use ProteMac NetMine

By: Jim in Hayward

Jim in Hayward — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:31:43 +0000

Education is not FREE. Pay the price or pay the penalty!

By: Jim in Hayward

Jim in Hayward — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:21:03 +0000

I don’t pirate nothin”….which must be why I have nothin’ to fear! OS X Rocks! XP fell by the wayside but I still run it in Parallels to do some work.

By: tjbackstage

tjbackstage — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:38:23 +0000

I know this posting is a month old, but I completely agree! I know somebody who has never legally paid his software, he pirates all of it. He even pirated OS X Leopard! He never actually pays for all of this expensive software, and for some reason, I wish that one of these times he’d get a trojan on his MacBook just because he downloads so much software illegally. Being a complete computer freak and also wanting to go to college for computer software and hardware development, I always pay for my software and hardware. It’s important to give the software (and hardware) developers the money they deserve for making great products. Adobe CS4 is a very complex amazing set of programs that is meant to be several thousand dollars, not free! Pirating it is no different than going into a store and actually stealing it because you’re getting a license without paying for it. How could you live with yourself after stealing over $2000 in programs from a company/store, especially in these economic times? It took lots of time and money for the software developers to create these programs that they feel is a fair price to charge for all their programs can do, and people feel they have the right to steal it since they can’t afford these programs? Well if you don’t have the money, then that’s your problem, and you should save your money for it so can actually legally buy it since that’s the RIGHT thing to do. It’s not super easy to get a trojan on Mac OS X where it is on Windows (especially less recent versions), but you still run a small risk for everything you download regardless. Seeing that some people put pirated versions of software with trojans online for people to download actually puts a grin on my face because it means that the people who go to pirate it from online get a trojan on their computer, which is what they deserve! Anyway, I couldn’t agree with Chris any more when he wrote: “If you were stupid enough to pirate software, you deserve everything that happens to you and your system”.

By: Natenixon

Natenixon — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:53:20 +0000

Woow how stuip can people get for software that only cost $20-40 Its pitiful!! :(

By: Robot55

Robot55 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:27:50 +0000

@TommyR –
huh?
” Chris is right 0 get a clue n a job” ?? – that is your contribution to the debate.
1st, I’ve been working in the computer industry for 15yrs now (ever since highschool) – I been working at every angle of it (art, dev, content, system, it, hardware, software, u name it)

2nd – “get a clue?” Look at my previous post! It is full of “clue”. Although it’s a bit lengthy, it describes the logic of my arguments in detail, it is not merely shouting, and it tries to xplain in understandable terms why I hold this point of view.

Very much unlike your post, if I may say so, which is simply cheering Chris and booing me without any argument (logical or illogical) at all.

so I guess my Q to you TommyR, is how does it feel, to realize that the poor sentence u posted up there is the best u can contribute to an intelligent debate?

hope yer kids turn out smarter n better,
Robot55

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:29:29 +0000

That’s bullshit. Chris just wants to rant instead of think.
If you download a FREE app for OS X there is a chance of it being a trojan as well. So THERE!

By: Aryeh Goretsky

Aryeh Goretsky — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:02:37 +0000

Hello,

There are other ways to get infected with malware than by downloading pirated software.

Running antivirus software is another good solution to the problem. Integeo, McAfee and Symantec all offer software to protect Mac OS X from malware. Installing a program sounds prudent, given the fact that OS X infecting malware is now starting to make the news.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

By: CommanderLock

CommanderLock — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:39:07 +0000

A lot of it is pirating from the guy who goes,
“Hai guise! I has CS4! Seed plz!” and people fall for it…most of the time, it seems. -_-
If someone only pirates from (how ironic) trusted uploaders who don’t try to trick people and know some people want the software without hassles.
The top pirated game this year was Spore, in protest of DRM and EA in general.
It seems like another form of civil disobedience, in my honestly humble opinion.
But the straight-up “Don’t pirate software” is a bit extreme-not all of us can afford Adobe’s over-priced software. Free alternatives exist but none of them are industry standards because the industry hasn’t embraced open-source yet.

By: TommyR

TommyR — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:25:27 +0000

Chris is right on the money. You pirate software it’s you own fault stupid.

Robot55,get a clue and a job.

By: Fyre Vortex

Fyre Vortex — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:39:03 +0000

I totally agree. Pirating is also a waste of bandwidth (If you have bandwidth restrictions), and the fact that you are not giving your money over to the rightful owners and the fact that you are not supporting the people who have made it, and in this case, Apple.

It is also severe disrespect to the company/programmers/developers who have spent all their time creating the program.