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Well an actual free antivirus doesn't exist for Mac, as such, and I wouldn't use it, as the realtime protection and stuff just slows stuff down. I use Nortorn mac scanner to scan my computer something like every few months, just to get rid of some PC viruses, so I don't pass on viruses to PC users. It's available on the Mac App Store.

@samid11: Maybe I should make a screen recording of me clicking it, if I ever get it? Because it doesn't affect Macs 

Mokat wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

@samid11: Maybe I should make a screen recording of me clicking it, if I ever get it? Because it doesn't affect Macs 

I wonder if I could click it while I'm on my phone.....

That would be cool 

jji7skyline wrote:

Well an actual free antivirus doesn't exist for Mac, as such, and I wouldn't use it, as the realtime protection and stuff just slows stuff down. I use Nortorn mac scanner to scan my computer something like every few months, just to get rid of some PC viruses, so I don't pass on viruses to PC users. It's available on the Mac App Store.

@samid11: Maybe I should make a screen recording of me clicking it, if I ever get it? Because it doesn't affect Macs 

This has it's own topic.

jji7skyline wrote:

Mokat wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

That would be cool 

It wouldn't destroy it, right? 

No. Not if it's an iPhone...


Nah, just kidding. As long as it isn't a Windows PC, and the virus is a PC virus, no harm will come from it 

Also, did I say anywhere that the virus is only for Windows?
It's possible it's a Java program or something.

Molybdenum wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

Agg725 wrote:

give me the link. there's nothing it can do to my kindle, as I cannot download anything.

If that's true...

Anyway, if you actually got pass the virus download part, I'm pretty sure it will just be a blank page.

So my post was ignored, in the midst of the Mac/Windows war?

Yeah, sorry.
Re: original post - yeah, it probably would be a blank page.

jji7skyline wrote:

jvvg wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

No. Not if it's an iPhone...


Nah, just kidding. As long as it isn't a Windows PC, and the virus is a PC virus, no harm will come from it 

Also, did I say anywhere that the virus is only for Windows?
It's possible it's a Java program or something.

This CNET article seems to imply it's a PC only virus 

It said it shows that message for PCs.
Macs can still be spread vectors.

jji7skyline wrote:

Exactly. Just like mosquitoes carry the malaria virus without dying from it, Macs carry PC viruses without getting affected by them. The viruses don't actually contaminate files themselves, they just stay in the file they were originally in. This is why I scan my Mac rarely, but regularly.

Very good example.

jji7skyline wrote:

Exactly. Just like mosquitoes carry the malaria virus without dying from it, Macs carry PC viruses without getting affected by them. The viruses don't actually contaminate files themselves, they just stay in the file they were originally in. This is why I scan my Mac rarely, but regularly.

My point is that even though you might not get locked out of your computer, you will still  get blamed by other people if they got the message from you, which is still bad. In fact, nobody will trust you anymore if they think you were the one responsible for getting locked out of their computer.

I also found a solution if you do get it:
http://www.fixpcyourself.com/unlock-pc- … ype-virus/

jji7skyline wrote:

jvvg wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Exactly. Just like mosquitoes carry the malaria virus without dying from it, Macs carry PC viruses without getting affected by them. The viruses don't actually contaminate files themselves, they just stay in the file they were originally in. This is why I scan my Mac rarely, but regularly.

My point is that even though you might not get locked out of your computer, you will still  get blamed by other people if they got the message from you, which is still bad. In fact, nobody will trust you anymore if they think you were the one responsible for getting locked out of their computer.

If the virus does not work on Macs, there's no way it can use my contact list etc. etc.

The article only said the message only shows on Windows. It never said that the spreading doesn't occur on other systems, because it might use Java or some similar cross-platform language, and the Skype API is universal.

jji7skyline wrote:

jvvg wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

If the virus does not work on Macs, there's no way it can use my contact list etc. etc.

The article only said the message only shows on Windows. It never said that the spreading doesn't occur on other systems, because it might use Java or some similar cross-platform language, and the Skype API is universal.

If the virus is powerful enough to do that on a Mac? Why not put the message on Macs as well? That doesn't make sense. This virus is definitely PC-only.

It's a bit harder to mess with startup files than it is to use the Skype API.
So, they probably wanted it to spread faster, so they made the easy part (sending the message using the Skype API) universal using a universal API, but the actual locking down part only for Windows, because that is much harder to code for either platform, and they wanted to use their energy to attack 90% of users instead of 8%.

jvvg wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

jvvg wrote:

The article only said the message only shows on Windows. It never said that the spreading doesn't occur on other systems, because it might use Java or some similar cross-platform language, and the Skype API is universal.

If the virus is powerful enough to do that on a Mac? Why not put the message on Macs as well? That doesn't make sense. This virus is definitely PC-only.

It's a bit harder to mess with startup files than it is to use the Skype API.
So, they probably wanted it to spread faster, so they made the easy part (sending the message using the Skype API) universal using a universal API, but the actual locking down part only for Windows, because that is much harder to code for either platform, and they wanted to use their energy to attack 90% of users instead of 8%.

I think you two should stop arguing. If he wants to click it and risk it, let him do that.
If his computer does break/others' do, that's his fault, not yours. If nothing happens to him, so what?

I don't have skype.
(btw.Linux!)