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Oct. 17th, 2006 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingApple attempts to increase OS market share by shipping iPods with Windows virus set to install as soon as you plug in the device.
Worse, they go on to suggest 4 products to clean your system - two of which, Norton AV Trial Edition and McAfee AV Trial, are so intrusive that I would mark them as viruses myself. If you pay for them every time they demand money, they work. If you don't, you can almost never get rid of them completely.
As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.Uh, no, you do NOT get to blame Windows for your own incompetence. Deliberately running malware on a Mac is just as damaging as running it on a windows PC - there's just less of it out there because nonstandard interfaces and defective functionality, running on custom hardware, with very little application support, is not and has never been a popular combination.
Worse, they go on to suggest 4 products to clean your system - two of which, Norton AV Trial Edition and McAfee AV Trial, are so intrusive that I would mark them as viruses myself. If you pay for them every time they demand money, they work. If you don't, you can almost never get rid of them completely.