One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows

judgecorp writes "One in five Apple Macs is infected with malware, according to Sophos. But most of that is harmless to the Mac... it is Windows malware ready to be transmitted to the Windows population. Only one in 36 Macs has OS X specific infections."

Re:Infected?

[quasipunk guy]

I'd wager the majority of the Windows malware "infections" are trojan exes from shitty porn sites.

I'm blaming Paul Allen

[smittyoneeach]

For the sake of variety.

Re:This is true.

[lennier1]

If even Norton picked up 120 infections imagine what a real scanner would've found.

Re:Antivirus Software on a Mac

[phantomfive]

Avoiding anti-malware in order to "enhance performance" is about as rational and well-planned as avoiding condoms for the same reason, and generally produces the same results.

A statement that demonstrates this point: "analogies are like nuclear weapons: you can use them to avoid making a good argument."

Re:Infected?

[hemo_jr]

Typhoid Mary was not only a carrier, but contagious. She ended up being forcibly quarantined because she was killing too many people and she could not be cured of being infectious.

In the case of the carrier Macs, they are not infectious, the infections can be removed, and the haven't killed anyone.

Re:Infected?

[narcc]

I would have to say I'm infected, but not affected by it.

Either way, you're fected.

global warming

[OrangeTide]

Why should I waste electricity scanning for viruses that can't infect my computer?