Apple Support Forums Suggest Malware Explosion

dotwhynot writes "According to ZDNet, the volume of in-the-wild malware reports on discussions.apple.com is truly exceptional. With the launch of the first malware DIY kit for OS X earlier this month, and now this, has the malware industry threat finally caught up with the growth of Apple, and what do Mac users need to do?"

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If they keep taking 8 months to fix security bugs

[Myria]

...then it is no surprise that malware is about to explode on Macs. I submitted a local privilege exploit in Mac OS that allowed any process to get kernel privilege at least 8 months ago, and they still haven't released a fix for it. This is even though the fix is only a few lines of code.

If the exploit had not been x86-specific, I would have given it to the iPhone jailbreakers instead of Apple.