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Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[solticisekf]

OMG, the very idea someone taking over my computer makes me anxious.

Macs are known to be virus free. There's one malware that looks like a genuine software update, but no viruses. Or that was the case 2 years ago when I looked it up.

I'd file a complaint against the guy.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

Macs are less likely to get viruses since the OS is different, but they can still definitelt get 'em.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

This, seriously.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[solticisekf]

Huh, lack of malware was a Mac's selling point for me. Oh well, I smashed my Macbook anyway.


$150 is way too pricy for a software help, imho.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

Linux's the least likely OS to get viruses if you're still concerned about it, but no OS is 100% safe. As long as you have a good anti-virus program, up to date OS, and stay off stay sites, you should be fine though.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

*shady sites

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[solticisekf]

Thanks for the heads up! I have Win8 and WinXP. Both are doing fine, even WinXP, surprisingly. Avast free antivirus and CCleaner forever. ❤

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[nyxelestia]

Macs can get viruses, malware, trojans, etc. They're just less likely to because their operating system is very different from the kinds of computers that are predominantly targeted by male (typically PCs running Windows) - but it can and does happen (and as more and more people - aka "targets" - have Macs, the more malware-makers will start coding their viruses and trojans for Macs).

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[solticisekf]

We all doomed while Linux people laugh and go to shady sites on purpose, just because they can.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[nyxelestia]

Not just the Linux people. I have a PC/Windows and I go to shady sites all the time. ;)

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[solticisekf]

lol 👍

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

steve jobs is proof that macs aren't virus-free

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[herpymcderp]

Wait, what? A-are you implying that Steve Jobs was a robot?

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

that's not funny

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

Macs are definitely not virus free. I worked IT support last year and I think we had to clean more Macs than PCs in the last few months. Though if you keep your OS up to date and don't download anything shady, you should be fine.

That said, OP's situation does sound shady as heck. In my experience, it's always really, really obvious if a Mac is infected and ClamXav is usually able to detect what's there.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

Macs aren't virus-free, and when they get them they're a motherfucker to clean up because they don't have the same sort of anti-virus/malware software and system restore features that Windows PCs have. (Largely due to the "Macs don't have to deal with that!" BS that gets pushed on consumers.)

I had to try and help my friend de-virus her Mac, (she was afraid to bring it in to tech support because of sensitive work docs on it), and it was a fucking nightmare.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[nyxelestia]

Fun story: I was once helping a friend defrag her Mac. It was an extremely convoluted process and was playfully dramatic about finally getting the process initiatied. She asked why it was so complicated for me if I "did it all the time", and I said that since defragging is basically a method of controlling the insides of your own computer (which is a huge no-no in the Apple ecosystem), it's easy to do on a PC but extremely difficult on a Mac. She had a hard time believing anything was easier to do on a PC than a Mac.

Her face when I started the defrag process on my own computer in three steps and under a minute...years later and the memory still makes me laugh!

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That sounds about like when I helped my friend with her virus. The first thing I suggested was to do a system restore to before she noticed the problem. (Generally my first step if I notice something strange with my computer, and super easy to do on a PC.) Turns out Macs don't have that feature. There are a few third party programs that can do something similar, if you purchased and installed them before you had a problem, but that's useless if you're trying to roll back a computer after it gets infected.

Apple is great at marketing to people who aren't completely computer illiterate but don't have a lot of practical experience with computers. They don't realize how much more expensive Macs really are. (I have a top of the line gaming laptop that costs $1,200 dollars less than the best MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Pro has worse specs.)

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[nyxelestia]

Wait, they don't have system restore? D:

I very recently discovered that Macs (or at least Mac laptops) don't even have a right-click on their mouses/mousepads! Like, how do you even use the damn computer without it, I use my right-click so much...

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[pantasma]

They do. I use it all the time, too.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[nyxelestia]

Oh, thank god, I thought my memory was going insane, for a while. One of my housemates has a Mac, and it has no right click (she didn't even know how to right-click/how to use it), and at a later study group the other Mac user confirmed that Macs generally don't have right-clicks. I thought my memory was fucked or I am just getting old because I remember using Macs in high school and they always had right-clicks.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[pantasma]

You are corrrrect! They don't have defined buttons like on all the PCs I've seen, but they are incorporated into the touchpad -- probably some kind of rocker thingy underneath, or something (that's a technical term). You can even switch them around like on a regular mouse, much to my relief.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[nyxelestia]

I don't suppose you know why some of them don't have a right-click function? I tried with both my housemate's and classmate's Macs, and they just don't work, no matter how far to the right you click the mousepad. My housemate didn't really know how to use the right-click function, and was genuinely surprised when I used Command+click despite having had her laptop for a while.

Re: Who To Trust? (Computer Issues)

[(Anonymous)]

Macs do have a right click function.

And you can do a system restore with a mac. It just requires you to have your time machine turned on.

[(Anonymous)]

Macs do have a system restore function though. Maybe not in the exact same way as Windows, but it is there. You can completely return to any time machine back-up you have made, and considering that time machine backs up every hour, you should never be losing much. Unless you are not backing up your computer which is stupid on any device.