I was in a computer store a few years ago watching a young guy trying to sell a tablet to an older woman. He said "the good news about this is that it can't get viruses because it runs apps".

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Tztztz...didn't he know that a full virus protection is only achieved when you run apps that run ads?

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

everyone knows viruses are allergic to apps

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ill bet anything they laughed about that in the breakroom

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 24 points 6 days ago

I'd bet they believed it themselves.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you assume that she will only install official apps, that they are sandboxed and Apple doesn't allow viruses in App Store apps, then that statement seems fine to me.

Every networked computer has some risk of getting a viris of course.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I mean yeah like you can be a pedant about it but all in all its a statement that makes sense. Apps on both android and ios are very sandboxed, even if you go out of your way to install malware there's very limited damage it can do, barring zerodays in the sandboxing itself.