Re: OS X Malware?

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

David Harley wrote:
> 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?

Have you been spying on my communications?  Indeed, that's pretty much 
what inspired my blog entry.  Add to your list: "But anything it tried 
to do would cause the Admin password dialog to pop up."

If you like reading that sort of thing, you can find an archive here:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Mac_attacks_rare_but_rising
My comments are the ones by "ryanlrussell", that have all been voted down.

I have to admit a certain joy that there is now an actual virus, because 
some of them kept saying "there are NO viruses for OS X".  Not that they 
know the difference between a virus and any other kind of malware, but I 
need to be technically correct, of course.

[shakes fist]  Damn kids!  Get off my lawn!

                                        BB
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