> I've been running OSX now for about 3 years. I have *NO* antivirus software. I have *NO* antispware. The really telling thing is that I also have *NO* problems! The best thing about OSX is that I just don't need any of this stuff. At this point in the game, it is completely irrelevant to me.
Perhaps there is MacOSX spyware writers tend to make sure their applications aren't noticable?
Perhaps there is MacOSX adware that replaces any pages that have google adwords with their own google adwords urls?
> C'mon virus writers and hackers, what's holding you back? We're missing the fun! I'm missing those pop-up adverts every time I move the cursor! Are we too hard to write viruses for? Is it that I've got everything backed up on tape? Is it because I'm behind a separate firewall machine? I'll give you a clue, it's running Smoothwall : isn't that a challenge to respond to?
Probably the hardware is too costly, although with the advent of intel-macs, that might change, as people will probably crack macosX to work on regular x86 hardware and pirate it.
Mac OS X also includes the Safari web browser. Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in this browser and in certain cases exploit code has also been posted publicly.
Apple frequently issues Mac OS X cumulative security updates that tend to include fixes for a large number of vulnerabilities with risk ratings ranging from critical to low. This complicates the tracking of vulnerabilities for this OS, and the best way to ensure security is to apply the latest cumulative patch
> the 'prevention' stuff already built into OSX, and since there are no known viruses for OSX currently in the wild, installing a signature checker would be a waste of time. And once again, history suggests that Apple's prevention strategy seems to be working pretty well.
Hmm.. Would that be that the hardware is too expensive for malicious users to run a pirated copy of the OS?
Slashdot Mirror
This, will explain it all.
Why should the Chinese be deprived of a good search engine?
Yes they do, if you want to get the latest patches you need the latest macosx version, which you need to pay for.
It's called Google talk.
I just don't understand why Valve Steam isn't classified as adware and spyware.
I mean, it advertises, it reports back information about my system and such that I can't stop...
Avast! Anti-virus detects many spyware/adware threats by the way. I've been using it to combat spyware/adware and it seems to work well.
Shame you have to pay (get the latest MacOSX) to get the security patches.
> I've been running OSX now for about 3 years. I have *NO* antivirus software. I have *NO* antispware. The really telling thing is that I also have *NO* problems! The best thing about OSX is that I just don't need any of this stuff. At this point in the game, it is completely irrelevant to me.
Perhaps there is MacOSX spyware writers tend to make sure their applications aren't noticable?
Perhaps there is MacOSX adware that replaces any pages that have google adwords with their own google adwords urls?
How would you know?
Why guess?
Facts are right there.
> Perhaps, keeping your Mac up to date with patches
A lot of people don't want to pay to be able to get upto date patches.
I'll never forget the issues I had upgrading from Woody to Sarge (in the end I simply reinstalled the OS from scratch).
> Oh hey, yeah, I saw that movie!
It evolved into a series too =)
FireFox supports standards, but NOT being strictly standard compliant. It was never like that, not even from day one.
Mail logs I have seen (with all the false positives the 'crawler' had), showed quite plainly it was a dictionary attack.
I wouldn't know, but I have seen things generated with -@whatever-the-domin-is-here.com, I've also seen other seperators such as:
. _ |
And this is on.. Not your well-known mail server installations.
> He was impeached for LYING TO A GRAND JURY.
About a blowjob.
That's because all the focus was on having a blowjob.
Who has a e-mail name that appears in a DICTIONARY?
Me.
Hey! Let's stop breathing air, it's so poluted! Breathing to live is such a terrible reason to breathe.
> Why would anyone want to run Microsoft crapware on a Mac?
Games.
> C'mon virus writers and hackers, what's holding you back? We're missing the fun! I'm missing those pop-up adverts every time I move the cursor! Are we too hard to write viruses for? Is it that I've got everything backed up on tape? Is it because I'm behind a separate firewall machine? I'll give you a clue, it's running Smoothwall : isn't that a challenge to respond to?
Probably the hardware is too costly, although with the advent of intel-macs, that might change, as people will probably crack macosX to work on regular x86 hardware and pirate it.
Universal virus!
R US-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVI
Well, not really.
Mac OS X also includes the Safari web browser. Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in this browser and in certain cases exploit code has also been posted publicly.
Apple frequently issues Mac OS X cumulative security updates that tend to include fixes for a large number of vulnerabilities with risk ratings ranging from critical to low. This complicates the tracking of vulnerabilities for this OS, and the best way to ensure security is to apply the latest cumulative patch
From SANs top20.
> the 'prevention' stuff already built into OSX, and since there are no known viruses for OSX currently in the wild, installing a signature checker would be a waste of time. And once again, history suggests that Apple's prevention strategy seems to be working pretty well.
Hmm.. Would that be that the hardware is too expensive for malicious users to run a pirated copy of the OS?
That might change...
Because as we all know, commented sourcecode always tells us where everything is: // There is a critical exploit here