[tkeAmarktinClss]

Another security issue for a company that Advertises it's security and privacy being useful for even the most uneducated user.

I know people talk about finance classes in schools, but I think we urgently need marketing classes. Companies have entire departments learning how to exploit your psychology and if you haven't seen the basics of marketing, you are ripe for pickings.

[jakemal]

> For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised installer and then dismiss a series of warnings from Apple in order to run it

The people getting infected are the people that are knowingly bypassing all of the security measures Apple put in place to protect the uneducated users.

[easterncalculus]

Those measures (and bypass methods) can be improved to more loudly tell the user of what could happen, and the risks associated though. Them being there doesn't mean they can't be improved. A ton of these malware types have come out long after these messages were (possibly arbitrarily) designed and written. I've heard of changes with Windows Defender in this respect (to more accurately reflect current threats like ransomware) but I haven't heard of Apple doing anything similar.

[jmull]

Doesn't this seems more like an advertisement for Apple's approach to security and loading apps?

If a user stays in the Mac App Store, or just doesn't bypass various warnings and macOS security mechanisms, they won't be susceptible to this malware.

Not that mac security mechanisms are perfect, but this is among the ones they protect you from.

[reaperducer]

I know people talk about finance classes in schools, but I think we urgently need marketing classes.

We had these in elementary school. Endless drills from the nuns about fact vs. opinion in things we read.

But that was back in the ignorant, backwards days when schools still taught geography, home economics, Latin, civics, theology, philosophy, and spelling.

/I can diagram a sentence in my mind as you speak it.