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    Mac Malware Revisited — Again!

    January 16th, 2018

    It is curious that the infamous CPU bug was identified by some members of the media as an Apple problem. Even though it impacted most CPU chips produced in the past 21 years — perhaps even the PowerPC — somehow it was strictly about iOS and Mac users facing danger when browsing in Safari, or […]


    The Mac and AntiVirus Fear Mongering

    September 29th, 2017

    In the old days of the Mac, back in the 1980s and 1990s, the suggestion that they were immune to computer viruses would have been laughed at. It wasn’t nearly as bad as on the Windows platform, but you definitely needed to run antivirus software. I learned that lesson the hard way in the late […]


    Is it Time to Take Mac OS X Malware Seriously?

    April 17th, 2012

    Apple’s marketing people might have put themselves on a shaky footing when they downplayed the susceptibility of OS X to malware in those Mac versus PC ads. While pointing to over 120,000 viruses on the Windows platform, the ads used the phrase (to quote approximately), “but not on Macs.” But that statement was strategically weasel-worded. It […]


    An Empty-Headed TV Commercial

    August 11th, 2011

    So you see someone in his home complaining that his computer is running slow, so his other half urges him to visit an online PC diagnostic site. In a few seconds, he realizes that his computer is infected with malware, and, further, complains that he’s had to restart a few times a week. By the […]