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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
I've been putting some more thought into this whole thing about permissions and passwords, when something popped up on my screen, all by itself, quite unannounced.
This, ladies, gentlemen, and nerds, is how you get that password. A window that pops up looking like this:
The Mac is rife with apps that check for updates on their own. When windows pop up announcing new versions, looking all sharp and legit, how many users do you think just click and allow these updates to come down. Growl is one of those apps that nearly everyone has, most don't know where or what app it came from, and has no apparent link to websites or surfing.
Lots of people know not to "update" their video codecs when surfing video sites. But an unrelated popup like this? Hmm.. |
You still have to have something malicious installed in the first place in order to trigger that Growl message to start the "update" process. These things don't just magically appear on their own.
On top of that, you're still talking about requiring some level of human interaction to complete the process. The only thing on this planet that will protect someone 100% from not paying attention to what they're doing is the Off button.
I run Kaspersky on all my Macs (
http://usa.kaspersky.com/products-se...-virus-for-mac) and I seem to get along just fine. Before that, I ran for almost 3 years without any AV program and I had no issues with any type of malware. I have the ability to read messages before I click on them, though, so that probably explains most of my good fortune in that regard.
