Re: [botnets] mac trojan in-the-wild

2007-11-01 Thread Jeremy Chatfield
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Hi Gadi, I think you've gone a bit over the top here. I use Macs in preference to Windows because it reduces my system administration demands to tiny levels. I can focus on my business, not a blizzard of meaningless messages,

Re: [botnets] mac trojan in-the-wild

2007-11-01 Thread Gadi Evron
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Jeremy Chatfield wrote: snip correct stuff And this has, so far, little to do with botnets... Unless this SE attack is installing a bot. Is it? What does the bot do? Is there a signature? That'd be

[botnets] re MAC trojan

2007-11-01 Thread Gary Flynn
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This is nothing more than simple downloadable malware exacerbated somewhat by permissive configuration settings. It exploits no security defects. As I understand it, the operator is given multiple opportunities to refuse the

Re: [botnets] re MAC trojan

2007-11-01 Thread Interspace System Department
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gadi Evron пишет: To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Gary Flynn wrote: To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This is nothing

Re: [botnets] re MAC trojan

2007-11-01 Thread Steven Adair
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Not sure this is necessariyl true, but that's beside the point as I'm sure we could have hundreds of witty replies all day long going both ways. The point is this requires user interaction to infect a machine. I am not

Re: [botnets] re MAC trojan

2007-11-01 Thread Gadi Evron
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Steven Adair wrote: Not sure this is necessariyl true, but that's beside the point as I'm sure we could have hundreds of witty replies all day long going both ways. The point is this requires user

Re: [botnets] re MAC trojan

2007-11-01 Thread PinkFreud
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [My apologies if this has already been covered - I started this email a few hours ago, and haven't had a chance to finish it until now.] I think the point Gadi (and Alex of Sunbelt Software, in his original blog entry) is

[botnets] the heart of the problem [was: RE: mac trojan in-the-wild]

2007-11-01 Thread Gadi Evron
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote: But more importantly, let's look at things from the other side. Let's say I'm wrong, and that Gadi is right on target with his hit hard I'd say we are both right. You look at

Re: [botnets] re MAC trojan

2007-11-01 Thread Aryeh Goretsky (home)
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hello, I think the concern is that Mac OS X users have been left alone with respect to things like file attachment-borne malware. Many Windows users now have a basic awareness to avoid clicking on attachments purporting to

Re: [botnets] the heart of the problem [was: RE: mac trojan in-the-wild]

2007-11-01 Thread James Pleger
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To be quite honest, I think there is also the fact that the majority of Apple users don't run AV or any type of protection suite because Viruses are for Windows. I am not sure if that was discussed at all in this topic. I know