Is this something new because I've opened and upgraded my MBP's RAM twice while the laptop was on warranty and the Apple Care warranty was not voided. In fact, I had both the battery and the bottom of the case replaced under warranty after I upgraded the RAM myself.
LOL at the clipped bull in the China shop. Just recently, I went to a site with a popup I shouldn't have clicked on, and the sumbitch automatically downloaded and ran a dmg file on me. If I didn't have Norton endpoint on my Macbook, I would've been hosed with some malware. There's many lessons here: - It wasn't that OSX has no viruses, but rather the market was so small (less than 13%) that people assumed hackers/criminals didn't think it was worth it to put that kind of fishing net across the interwebs. - There's a certain demographic with Mac users, whom are likely more affluent while having "peculiar or specific" tastes. In other words, they'll spend more money to get a functionally similar offering for the investment of user experience and convenience. What I get from this is that the more common bugs around probably don't want to destroy your precious Apple product, but rather not be detected and try to steal as much personal data from you possible. That's not to say Windows users are safe from these kind of criminals, but it goes back to the criminal ROI factor. They can spend a little more work to release both a Windows and an OSX variant. - Web development for different platforms is becoming more common place as mobile and other devices are accessing the same content with different presentation layers. This means developers/hackers have more access to tailor a page to know what type of computer you're working on (if windows, then send .exe file...if OSX, then send .dmg...if Android -> .ipx). Damn right you shouldn't feel safe. - So now you're paranoid about the OS and webpages, one last thing to consider is the browser. Chrome has had issues putting locks on what is a "safe extension". It's pretty easy to hack and make them legit. There's even news that shifty companies are buying popular "legit" extensions and then going 180 and placing malware in the new updates. In the OP's case, part of the malware was to hack the browsers, each of them (maybe not Opera since it's not cool, just Hipster cool) so that no matter which one you used, the green underlines were there despite not having a "hacked" computer. Stay savvy and stay safe folks. A virus scanner is not a waste of time or money if you choose the right one....Don't ask me which one as it always changes, and you have to stay current just like knowing about the extensions you use.
Even if a disk image were to run automatically it's not going to install without your permission. Also, OS 9 had significantly more virus issues than OS X with a smaller userbase.
^This is true. The scanner caught it when it automatically extracted the zip. My problem is that I'm a hoarder and could possibly forget the crap I put in my Downloads folder. How much more and significantly more than Windows in the same period?
What the heck kind of site you must be visiting to get a virus on a Mac? I've never had a virus or adware that I know of on my Mac Book Pro.
After using windows my whole life i finally bought a macbook about 5 months ago....and so far it is a great machine. If you are having issues take it to a mac store.
I had a bit of adware, but that was my own fault for not upgrading the OS for so long. Ever since upgrading...not a single problem.
