
There have been recent reports of much higher rates, 30% in one article, but if you look at them they're actually referring to browser scareware. While it is perfectly true that the Mac OS is just as vulnerable to malware as any other, that factually doesn't show up in the real world as actual infection rates. As the last link puts it, all the malware infections on the Mac over all history put together are about the same as what Windows gets in an hour. Since then, while there are many thousands of malware systems on the Mac, the actual infection rate remains close to zero. Too Lazy To Use Google.ĭuring the height of the FB infections the predicted number of infections was either 600k or 650k depending on the source, but other research suggests it never reached 120,000 at any single moment. Handbrake does many things with video files, but most people still use the app for ripping DVDs.Ĭlick to expand.I posted several rather specific numbers and you didn't bother to look them up? Fine, whatever Mr. But the last time my Handbrake auto-update ran was in April, so I am good. After 1.0, Handbrake now uses an in-app auto-update feature so you no longer download it from a website. As the article mentioned, anyone using a version prior to 1.0. This malware only occurred if you downloaded Handbrake from the infected mirror site. Yes, many commercial DVDs still use libdvdcss for protection. This has been known on the Internet ever since Apple started using sandboxing. No hacks are needed and Handbrake will automatically find the library file and decrypt the commercial DVD. The name of the file is 'libdvdcss.2.dylib'.

You need to use Pacifist to extract the library file from the installer package to manually install the libdvdcss library file. Installing the libdvdcss file in the /usr/local/lib directory does not interfere with Apple's sandboxing. If you do not have the lib folder in your /usr/local directory, create it. Then you have to manually install libdvdcss in the /usr/local/lib directory. You have to download libdvdcss separate from VLC, which has been that way long before Apple's sandboxing. Handbrake continues to rip commercial DVDs as long as you have libdvdcss installed, even with macOS Sierra.
