Ditto. I updated to NAV 11 to take advantage of it being Universal Binary on my MacBook Pro. It is good of you and others thinking about malware from other OSes since we all must interact with other people on other operating systems and those other operating systems are vulnerable to viruses and malware. However Mac are not totally out of the woods in terms of malware and vulnerabilities since recently people have found problems with ARDAgent:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080624105604884
There are older vulnerabilities in Mac also.
Zero-day exploit:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060223073721554
OSX/Inqtana.A, OSX/Inqtana.B, OSX/Inqtana.C:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060217094118908
Oompa-Loompa Trojan (OSX/Oomp-A or Leap-A):
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060216133356985
Although most of these are innocuous but it will just time when someone will create one that will be dangerous. Malware writers concentrate on MS Windows because they more "bang" for the buck but as Macintosh gain popularity and market share those malware writers will start writing malware for Macs.
Existing users, log in. New users, create a free account. Lost password?
I still use it! - baddawg65
Ditto. I updated to NAV 11 to take advantage of it being Universal Binary on my MacBook Pro. It is good of you and others thinking about malware from other OSes since we all must interact with other people on other operating systems and those other operating systems are vulnerable to viruses and malware. However Mac are not totally out of the woods in terms of malware and vulnerabilities since recently people have found problems with ARDAgent:http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080624105604884
There are older vulnerabilities in Mac also.
Zero-day exploit:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060223073721554
OSX/Inqtana.A, OSX/Inqtana.B, OSX/Inqtana.C:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060217094118908
Oompa-Loompa Trojan (OSX/Oomp-A or Leap-A):
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060216133356985
Although most of these are innocuous but it will just time when someone will create one that will be dangerous. Malware writers concentrate on MS Windows because they more "bang" for the buck but as Macintosh gain popularity and market share those malware writers will start writing malware for Macs.
Reply to This
Friday, June 27 2008 @ 02:26 PM PDT