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Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus

Posted by kdawson on from the pinch-salt-toss-over-shoulder dept.

File this firmly in the "rumor" category for now. the JoshMeister writes (in the third person) "Mac antivirus company Intego broke the story this morning that Apple is apparently including antivirus functionality in its upcoming operating system, Snow Leopard. But which antivirus engine is Apple using? Security researcher Joshua Long discusses the likely candidates."

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  1. Virus on MAC ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    bah, what respectful virus author targets anything but the Microsoft OS ?

    1. Re:Virus on MAC ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      A few highlights from TFA:
       

      • The submitter is a pompous queer.
      • Apple users are pompous queers.
      • Snow leopard uses the Symantec A/V engine, so it is 200% slower.
      • Macs do get viruses, so Steve Jobs is a goddamn liar
      • Steve Jobs tried to have me killed so he could get my liver
      • Snow leopard is to regular leopard as Vista is to XP.
    2. Re:Virus on MAC ? by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I thought that Trojans were made to prevent the replication of those huge two-legged viruses.

    3. Re:Virus on MAC ? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

      I.e., "Beware of the Snow Leopard"?

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    4. Re:Virus on MAC ? by tagno25 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought that Trojans were made to prevent the replication of those huge two-legged viruses.

      No, that is condoms made by a company called Trojan. The virus trojans are based off of the wooden horse left outside Troy by the Greeks. It looked legitimate, but it was a trap.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing)

    5. Re:Virus on MAC ? by sbeckstead · · Score: 2, Funny

      This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any application of fantastic "Fixed that for you" jokes will be "aplauded". There fixed that for you!

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    6. Re:Virus on MAC ? by risk+one · · Score: 3, Funny

      Snow leopard uses the Symantec A/V engine, so it is 200% slower.

      Snow leopard? More like slow leopard!

      (I had to do it... there was no other way)

    7. Re:Virus on MAC ? by SBrach · · Score: 4, Funny

      Says the guy who can't figure out the difference between "to" and "too."

  2. Snowing ? by HW_Hack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we get a weather report from Hell ?

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    1. Re:Snowing ? by BollocksToThis · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's currently "SCO is not dead yet", with a 25% chance of "Microsoft acts with integrity".

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  3. Scanning by schmidt349 · · Score: 4, Funny

    At its core a virus scanner is just a wrapper around a multipattern byte matcher, so maybe it's better to ask whether they're using Aho-Corasick or Wu-Manber...

  4. Nonsense by TerrenceCoggins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Virus protection? If Mac vs PC guy has taught me anything, it's that MAC'S DON'T GET VIRUSES! Don't lie to me...

    1. Re:Nonsense by xZgf6xHx2uhoAj9D · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well yes, that's what the anti-virus is for, to ensure Mac's don't get viruses ;)

  5. Linux Foundation announces partnership with McAfee by billlava · · Score: 2, Funny

    San Francisco, AP
    In response to a sharp rise in popularity in 2014 (the year of the Linux desktop,) the Linux Foundation has announced that antivirus technology from McAffee will be built into all versions of the Linux kernel starting with v 2.6.45. When asked about this latest development, Linus Torvalds said, "I believe that adding 2,476,000 lines of antivirus code in order to protect Linux users is the most effective solution and can only benefit Linux users for years to come."

    That'll be the day that hell freezes over.

  6. Re:AV for consumers will be free by megamerican · · Score: 3, Funny

    The most effective thing they give users to protect from malware is a hammer to hit the person in the head each time they install or click on something they don't trust.

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  7. Re:Linux Foundation announces partnership with McA by hodet · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...followed up by

    The Linux foundation regrets distributing Mcaffee which is a rootkit whose name looks a lot like McAfee.

  8. McAfee by SnarfQuest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let them run McAfee. Those Macs run too fast as it is, and that should make those shooter games playable by us mere humans.

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  9. Our terrible terrible secret... by Garbad+Ropedink · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's time we came clean. Macs do get viruses. Actually they get a lot of viruses. Really the OS is basically viruses and itunes. We pretend like we can work on these systems but it's just a screen full of viruses all having sex with eachother. The reason you never heard about it because back in ought 3' we took an oath to never reveal that terrible terrible truth. We relied on Windows users hatred of Macs preventing them from finding out. But, now that it's out in the open I suppose we ought to move forward and try to rebuild, maybe accept the situation and try to secure our OS.

    So uhh.. Windows users... How do you make a *shudder* bug fix?

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  10. Location of the definitions by tomasf · · Score: 2, Funny

    FWIW, the file containing virus definitions is located at: /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist

  11. indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Slashdot users and Windows users both must have a lot of spare time to waste on garbage.