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RE: OS X Malware?


From: "David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:01:31 -0000

Is there any OS X malware (as defined in my blog entry) that I'm missing?

Seems to cover most things. Good luck. In my experience, the dialogues
usually go along the lines of:

There is no Mac malware.
Well, there's no OS X malware.
Well, that's not a virus/worm, it's a Trojan.
You can't slip anything past the Apple update system.
You can't compromise a Mac because you need root privileges.
What's a rootkit?
What's social engineering?
Why are you bothering me with this stuff when Windows is such a crock?

Sorry. There's years of accumulated personal abuse behind that little rant.

-- 
David Harley
Security Author & Consultant
Small Blue-Green World
dharley () smallblue-greenworld co uk



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