"Kurt" <labolide@spacegmail.com> wrote in message
news:labolide-A66EA4.09030725022007@news.giganews.com...
> In article <12u2jugkmgp6k88@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\""
> <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
>> <xavier-onassis@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:fbWdnaFANMYJFQnYnZ2dnUVZ_ompnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>> > That URL is a prank. You are about to see some explicit sex video
>>
>> Nowadays, you have to be very wary of going to a website that's a
>> 'prank'. The bastards are making websites that do driveby virus
>> installation. Your PC ends up becoming another bot on a botnet. Or
>> worse, it installs a key logger and your identity gets stolen, along
>> with your bank account.
>
> Or you can own a Mac and laugh at all this stuff.


Talk about prank! The fallacy that Macs are immune from viruses and
exploits is so much bull-hocky. Macs (and OS-X) are absolutely no more
impervious to these attacks than are PCs; it is simply that almost all the
exploits are against the PC, which account for 96% of all computers sold.
If Macs were 97% of the computers sold, it would be Macs being attacked and
PC users saying "get a PC". I love the look on the face of a Mac owner that
has brought his/her machine in for a problem, and we tell them it was
infected...they actually believe that their machines are "impervious". This
false sense of security is laugable, and dangerous.


Honu



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