What happened?

Windows 11 is pretty awesome though

You really need to take a deep breath and calm down

I hate to be the one to point this out for you but, I’m not the one getting pissy. I also have resorted to insulting people. Maybe it’s time for you to reflect on this and take a break

Yeah you blathered on about nonsense telling me your life story as if it matters. It doesn’t, you can’t try and throw weight around trying to say you have a more legitimate background and understanding and then be absolutely wrong about something. It’s goddam insane, and you should feel bad for trying to manipulate people, it’s not going to work with me but there are plenty of other people who do read the comments and you are doing nothing more than being manipulative. So STOP

I mean that’s a lot of words to summarize you didn’t really get what’s going on. End result there is still no grounds on which to blame Google for any of this and the only one responsible here for protecting the user is Apple. No real way to slice it otherwise but I’ll tell you this much, nobody is asking you to defend the biggest company in the world.

Sure but actually no as that literally wouldn’t be able to happen on windows. Windows will immediately quarantine any flagged files and they won’t be able to launch without the user having to jump through some rather extravagant hoops. Since you mentioned bonzibuddy and search bars I’m gonna go ahead and assume you haven’t looked at a Windows PC in the last 15 or more years so I guess that would explain your misunderstanding on this subject

7% is percent market sale. Not sales. Mac’s have very rapid EOL as you can’t update to newer versions for reasons of revenue so you will so you will actually see more older PCs running than anything and with Mac’s declining sales you will see fewer and fewer as time goes on especially since Intel mac’s are losing support already

I mean, at the end of the day the malware is being allowed to install on the computer is it not?

Care to elaborate on what OSX security and Linux security are?

Rather ironic that your post is getting downvoted

There have been issues with Apple bot army’s on lemmy just as they have on Reddit.

It was already explained in the original article. It’s not what you want to believe but it is the actual situation and I’m not gonna spend forever writing a response because it won’t actually change the fact of you reading things

I think your should read again. You seemed to understand the parts separately but when they came together you got a bit confused

Actually it seems you may have made some mistakes in researching causes of viruses. Viruses have infected Windows machines more in the past as it is a larger target, there are far far more Windows users than Apple and Linux users by a large large margin which means you have a higher target for your attack. MacOS makes up about 7% of the operating system market at its peak and Linux hovers are 2-3% so planning a virus to affect one is not a great idea unless… Microsoft’s security started to become so strong that malware developers now have to seek the open vulnerabilities (see op). Since that’s not understood we can move on

As far as the article indicates the ad itself was not actually a Google fault whatsoever, it actually appears as a Google ad though. The malware itself is installed by other means entirely but the user themselves, the relation to Google here is that the malware already installed on the machine disguises itself as a Google ad. Really, honestly, read the article next time. This is 100% standard malware attack on an unprotected system.

Definitely sounds like it wouldn’t and hasn’t gotten anywhere on Linux or Windows. And if we look at the authors page we can see they may have some deep bias going on. You may want to block articles by them preemptively.

I like how Apple has all these virus issues and their users will go to any length to make it not appear to be Apple’s fault.

Edit: Downvotes don’t change the fact that I am right whether it upsets you or not

Shouldn’t Apple be the focus of efforts?

That makes sense then. When you search alarm system anywhere else you will get results for security systems which these days are simple consumer devices that lock customers into sketchy proprietary “ecosystems” that require subscription services that prevent users from operating and repairing by themselves.

Nobody talking about fire alarms still