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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. 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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  2. 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...

  3. 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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  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)