Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus

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."

Comments

Re:Nonsense

[Colonel Korn]

I don't understand why you people think that any OS can be imprevious to a trojan?

As an OS X user, this is great news.
This way I don't have to wonder if my Apple using friends are downloading Photoshop from TPB and getting infected.

But, no, as of yet, there are still no self-propagating viruses or worms for OS X.
Even though my snide Windows friends keep sending me the sky is falling emails every month about OS X being just as vulnerable as Windows.

Remember that OSX takes last place by a huge margin each year in pwn2own. OSX is certainly more vulnerable, but it gets attacked a lot less considering the 3.5% market share.

Re:Nonsense

[BarryJacobsen]

Remember that OSX takes last place by a huge margin each year in pwn2own. OSX is certainly more vulnerable, but it gets attacked a lot less considering the 3.5% market share.

At the same time, the rewards for pwning the OS X machine are greater (in resale value at the least, ignoring personal preferences), too, so you'll have more people going for it in the challenge where as (as you state) in the real world the pay off is actually less than if you pwned a different os.

mac users are gold

[OrangeTide]

Mac users have a lot of disposable income if they can afford overpriced Apple hardware.