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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