POLL: Have you ever gotten a virus on your Mac?

[S. Pupp]

WDEF - I caught this in college after inserting my floppy into a well-used receptacle.

nVIR-A and nVIR-B were both present on a B&W I bought from a video studio. Fortunately, I ran Norton AV for Mac prior to sharing files with my other Macs, and cleared the infection.

[tuqqer]

ztirffritz wrote:
The worst that I've encountered was from installing a plugin in Firefox that hijacked the home page and the default search engine. Didn't take me long to figure out the cause. Cleaning it up took a bit longer.

Same. You worded it better than I did. That's exactly what I had happen but in Safari.

[graylocks]

only some browser malware and it's been YEARS since even that has happened.

[GGD]

Based on the comments, I think many people are responding to the more open ended question in the subject of this thread rather than the more specific question for the poll.

"Since say 2010, have you ever found a virus on your Mac?"

[NewtonMP2100]

....venereal.....

[tuqqer]

GGD wrote:
Based on the comments, I think many people are responding to the more open ended question in the subject of this thread rather than the more specific question for the poll.

"Since say 2010, have you ever found a virus on your Mac?"

Bingo. OS 9 and below had its issues. But I've yet to meet any knowledgable Mac user who actually got a true virus post 10.5 or so. They may exist! I just still contend that they're pretty hard to find and get.

And that's what bugs me about these articles that sway newer Mac users that, "Yup, I must need to purchase AV software for my Mac."

[testcase]

Back in pre- OS X days, MacAddict magazines included CDs. One of these CDs had been compromised and, LOTS of Macs were infected. I don't remember the name of the virus but, it was quickly discovered and remedied.


For a few months now, I'd swear my Mac has some kind of a bug (or a least the browsers do). MalwareBytes and etreCheck both claim my MBP is clean. Just too much "weirdness" for there NOT to have something wrong.

[Ombligo]

MacKeeper piggybacked on some other software install and I didn't notice it until it was too late. Talk about a PITA to remove.

[tuqqer]

Ombligo wrote:
MacKeeper piggybacked on some other software install and I didn't notice it until it was too late. Talk about a PITA to remove.

Those bottom feeders are still active, unfortunately. Their high payout to those who are willing to sell their souls make MacKeeper an occassional top advertiser on sites such as MacUpdate, 9to5, CNet.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

The poll needs more choices, AND needs to be able to vote for multiple items.

I got multiple infections on 68K architecture.

I have seen multiple people here report malware infections on "recent" (10.9.x and later) macOS machines. Advanced users that keep their machines up to date will have less problems.