Macintosh Virus Discovered

1. Scotchdrnkr
   October 28th, 2008 at 10:51 am

   Oh Macs get attacked on a regular basis too there just aren’t as many V writers for Macs.

2. Xinavera
   October 28th, 2008 at 10:52 am

   Cute. I’ll be more careful now with my MPB.

3. Scotchdrnkr
   October 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am

   Cute video though!

4. fluff
   October 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am

   Errm….there have been virusses for macs for ages now…

5. gtron
   October 28th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

   the new macbooks come with out a firewire port (detrimental to lots of recent video camera equipment which independent creators use to fill the web with content); recent versions of iMovie are not as good as older versions (this is bundled software to make home movies with, low end video editing); recent releases of Final Cut Pro Express are reportedly not as good as previous versions - so if you upgrade from 3 to 4, you lose lots of cool features needed by mid-range creators, and it’s tough to un-upgrade (Express is the low end basic editing device for pro-sumer, the bare bones of the more elaborate and enhanced FCPro)
   all of these things suggest that the Mac user they sell you on the tv spots is a modern young hipster (student?) - but the three actions buy the Corp. say they are not interested in the low end, only the high end: buy our macbook pro (which DOES have firewire) and buy our pro software versions if you want to do better work as an editor… the cult of mac is a little tiresome in a pending depression

6. chet
   October 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

   @Scotchdrnkr
   Yeah, the apple TV ads bug me for just that reason. They give the average consumer the impression that macs are somehow completely immune to viruses. Not a big deal when there are few macs around, but as they get more popular virus makers will have a growing interest to target them. Seems to be a setup for a lot of aggravation… or the next “Evil Dead” movie.

7. PaulVI
   October 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

   And yet the users rave in their reviews. Apple gets top ratings in customer tech service. MS gets lower ratings, even though their updates are free.

   Andre Agassi was right: “Image is everything”. Apple will improve your image as you type away at the Starbucks, with a glowing white apple on your screen-back.

8. Miss Cellania
   October 28th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

   I don’t know how people decide PC vs. Mac now, but in 1988 when I had an opportunity to upgrade from a AppleII to a Macintosh, I thought about the PC at work and decided Macs were the way to go. Ten years later, PC users were all excited about a new thing called “Windows”, which let them click icons and not have to type in codes. Like Macs.

   So there are fewer differences now, but after 20 years, I will stick with Mac.

9. MeganFox
   October 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

   I loved how the guy was very careful not to damage the Macbooks

10. Moodindigo
    October 29th, 2008 at 3:45 am

    Windows came out in 1985. Just sayin’.

11. Ajan
    October 29th, 2008 at 5:32 am

    Well, no software can be immune to virus.. But still I don’t think it is possible for a Mac to get infected with a virus. Having worked with Apple Inc. I’d like a Mac and Windows sux terribly..

12. ted
    October 29th, 2008 at 6:42 am

    Mac users are kinda smug about it - like people who drive hybrids.

13. Ali S.
    October 29th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    Haven’t had a virus on my MB then again I’m a careful user.

14. JamesM
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    “Miss Cellania
    October 28th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Ten years later, PC users were all excited about a new thing called “Windows”, which let them click icons and not have to type in codes. Like Macs.

    So there are fewer differences now, but after 20 years, I will stick with Mac.”

    You mean like how Xerox had it before Macs did?

    You can attempt to claim that Macs led the way in the GUI and Windows merely copied it, but that’s not the case.

    Apple tried to take Microsoft to court and couldn’t win. Majority of their claims were denied by the court. Apple appealed and lost.

    When it comes down to using a computer in this day and age, Apple is good at marketing. But that’s about it.

    Amiga, Atari both had GUIs well before Apple did. The Apple Macintosh was Apple’s first successful product to use a GUI. Xerox had patents on the GUI prior to 1979.

    The Xerox PARC team had developed a GUI before and independently of Apple for quite some time. One of the Xerox PARC team members developed GEM and was sued by Apple for “look and feel.”

    The GEM interface was released for Atari ST systems. It was ALSO distributed with DRDOS for PC’s in the early 80’s.

    In 1985, Commodore released the Amiga computer and had a GUI called Workbench.

    Windows 1.01 was released in 1985. It also was GUI based and had more in common with The PARC development than the Apple Macintosh GUI. Given the lengthly development and distribution time in the mid 80’s, there’s no way that three different brands all had a GUI coming out simply because Apple had one for their systems less than 6 months prior. Xerox’s PARC team got around and licensed their research to a lot of people. Apple just got greedy and refused to accept that other people could “steal” ideas for themselves.

    Before Macs were “the chosen one” for trendy factor and video features, you know who led the market in video editing on a computer? Amiga. Almost all of Babylon 5’s CGI was done on Amigas. Amiga is also credited for having a pre-emptive multitasking operating system before anyone else, oh, and even using the Motorola 68k processor before Apple did.

    Apple owes a significant debt to Xerox and Amiga’s research and development. Apple is just like Microsoft in a lot of regards, especially when it comes to appropriating other people’s developmental work and reselling it as their own innovations.

    Besides, Miss Cellania… You should have been around when it was the Apple II based computers. You had to “type in codes.” You couldn’t run applications that weren’t already saved to disk… you had to type it all in through BASIC and run it while it was in memory. And retype it if you wanted to run it again. Prior to the Macintosh, Apple was ALLLLL about “typing in codes.”

    And what’s one of the biggest things that Mac powerusers like about OSX?

    Unix command line. You know. “Typing in codes.”

    GUI’s have always been available in some form or another since the late 1970’s. Don’t let your ignorance be an excuse for saying that PC’s were only catching up to the Mac in that regards. Even on an old Xerox PC x86 (XT, 8086 proc) clone (dual 720k floppy drives, whoo!), there was a GUI for the file manager in DOS.

    You like the GUI, great. You like using MacOS? Great. Use what works best for yourself.

    Just don’t parrot the “Mac has always been better because it always had a GUI” ignorance speak just because you never knew better about other computers and their capabilities before Microsoft had Windows on every PC by default.

15. Miss Cellania
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    What’s a GUI?

16. JamesM
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    “Miss Cellania
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    What’s a GUI?”

    “G”raphical “U”ser “I”nterface.

17. just a guy
    October 29th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    The best thing about this is the Resident Evil reference.

    (”Blood? I hope this isn’t…”)

18. Razor
    November 1st, 2008 at 10:51 am

    Miss Cellania:

    Here’s another acronym to look up: RDF.

19. Edwin
    November 12th, 2008 at 8:54 am

    I never ran into any virus related problems on my mac. Yet today I forgot to knock on wood after telling my colleague about it.

    This morning the system I work on 2×2.66 dual-core intel xeon, 4GB OS-X 10.5 just decided to change all the disk privileges to “costum”. I can’t change it. I had to reinstall OS-X in order to get into my system. Yet, the HDDs are not accessible.
    I just started with a new project and can re-digitize all the raw footage I need to edit.
    The problem is: backups drives hooked up to the system were locked in the process. And I couldn’t find a way of recovering the locked data. Not even with DiscWarrior or the DiscUtility.

    Is there finally somebody who decided to write a virus? Is so? Please help me unlock… :’-(
    Or perhaps somebody ran into the same problems.

    my email is: 1000woorden AT gmail DOT com.

    Thanks!

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