{"id":914,"date":"2011-05-27T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2011-05-27T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T04:01:21","slug":"it-was-nice-while-it-lasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"it was nice while it lasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a variety of stories recently about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/security\/newest-macdefender-scareware-installs-without-password-213\">MacDefender<\/a>, and the recent [small] wave of malware attacks on Mac OS X systems.<\/p>\n<p>For years, one of the most-touted features of the Mac was its [relative] immunity to malware: the number of viruses, trojans, etc for <em>any<\/em> edition of the Macintosh is remarkably small: with System 7, it was on the order of <em>scores<\/em>, not <em>thousands<\/em> as with DOS\/Windows (at the time).<\/p>\n<p>I do not run antivirus software on most of my machines (virtual and\u00a0physical),\u00a0because\u00a0I take a variety of other precautions. The glib statement that Macs are immune to attacks is becoming, sadly, more-publicly-known to be false.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note, though, that this particular attack still relies on poor user understanding, rather than a flaw in the platform itself: it is still up to the user to install this bogus piece of crap, rather than it materializing automagically via a browser plugin, email attachment, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a variety of stories recently about MacDefender, and the recent [small] wave of malware attacks on Mac OS X systems. For years, one of the most-touted features of the Mac was its [relative] immunity to malware: the number of viruses, trojans, etc for any edition of the Macintosh is remarkably small: with &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=914\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">it was nice while it lasted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}