Worry about the MAC system

[e12a]

ClamAV is more or less a virus scanner for windows viruses.
I highly doubt there will be devastating viruses coming anytime soon. The only way to really compromise a mac is through a trojan horse, but then those are user installed.

 

[Rocksaurus]

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4436989

 

[TheStu]

That's flawed logic. I understand what you're getting at, but the argument is that there's no point going after MacOS when Windows is the vast majority. 10% is nowhere near a majority, so 0 people who want to attack an OS that is not the vast majority times however many virus creators out there is still 0.

And for those of you saying there's no worry for Mac's, you are incorrect. There is a Trojan out right now that completely takes control of your Mac.

What you don't have to worry about on Mac is something seeping in without you having done anything. The Trojan I spoke of above requires you to install what claims to be a codec. There are almost none of these, but they DO exist. But as long as you're only installing things when you know what they are, you are safe. And even if you install things when you're not sure what it is... the odds are you are still safe. It's analogous to being struck by lightning... there are so few out there, that you're really not at much risk... yet.

I think the point of the author of this thread is, what if Mac becomes even more popular? With the failure of Vista, this is somewhat of a distant possibility. Then Mac becomes a target... no argument that MacOS is far more secure than Windows... but when the incentive is there, trust me, virus's will occur more frequently.

Right, except it doesn't take control of the whole system, it modifies DNS information. Not saying it couldn't be modified to take control, but as it is right now, it does not.

 

[feyn-man]

just found that
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=68860

 

[yellow]

Intego again?

Last time they did this, it was a proof of concept that they themselves developed and then realeased "in the wild" in order to drum up sales of their AV software.

I'm suspicious that they've done that again because of all the hype around Leopard and the greater potential of switchers coming to the Mac platform and finding it hard to let go of their old ways..

Anti-virus?
Anti-spyware?
Defragger?
Uninstaller?



Edit: I should say, I'm not disputing that there's an exploit.. just suspicious of it's origin.

 

[Sky Blue]

just found that
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=68860

This getting ridiculous. I remember a couple of years ago, a version of MS Word 2004 you could download from P2P networks that would wipe out your system...then there was the 'dashboard as spyware' fiasco in early versions of Tiger. Always seems to be the anti-virus companies who start it up too.. In a couple of week, this'll all be forgotten until something equally trivial comes along next year... the only thing more mac users cause is more people to say "oh noez MAC is becmeing like Winders!!11"