Dridex malware pops back up and turns its attention to macOS A variant of the bad penny that is Dridex, the general-purpose malware that has been around for years, now has macOS platforms in its sights and a new way of delivering malicious macros via documents. The first sample of this latest variant appeared on Virus Total in 2019, but detections started to rise a year later and peaked …
.. avoiding Microsoft altogether appears to be a good idea.
LibreOffice to the rescue, especially now a long standing problem is thankfully about to be solved..
I never quite got on with the way the Apple suite works which seems to start with ye olde Desktop Publishing layout and then attaches functionality like a word processor (Pages) or a spreadsheet (Numbers) to it. That's probably not what they did, it just feels that way to me which is why it doesn't work for me personally. It is better at opening DOCX whilst keeping a layout though, I agree, but I rarely need that.
That said, Keynote is fantastic compared to Powerpoint whereas LibreOffice's Impress doesn't quite cut it for me.
.. avoiding Microsoft altogether appears to be a good idea.
While I agree with you in principle, your reasoning doesn't hold up. As long as MS Office holds by far the largest share of the market, malware will target it. If an alternative grows in proportion in terms of users, especially if they are high value targets, the bad guys will expend resources to go after that, too.
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