At 4:06 AM -0400 9/29/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
This morning report will explain.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4451&tag=nl.e550
Realize that that blog posting, and the dozen other articles, are
rehashes of a rehashed story. This is just the news media distracting you because
they've got nothing else mean to crow against Apple[*].
"In a sign
that cyber-criminals are investing more time and resources into
attacks against Apple's Mac users, a new malware affiliate program
has been discovered offering 43c for every infected Mac
machine."
ROFL These
putz criminals have been offering such "bounties" for years,
for machines of all platforms - pc, mac, unix, linix, etc. I
would venture they stopped paying the bounty for peecees years ago tho
- they're just too easy to gnab.
Note that the site
*was* - it's dead now, Jim - doing all this thru trojans. With
all that interest, they couldn't manage to produce a single true virus
for Mac OS X! They had to relay on lame-a** trojans and hope
they found users stupid enough to install them.
ROFL.
[*] Remember they
just got done ranting about the fact that Apple shipped Snow Leopard
with an old version of Flash. They're now trying to avoid that
story so they don't end up looking like idiots -- because the reality
is that the "up to date" version of Flash that Apple could
have shipped, at the time, has a LOT of stability problems.
Apple had a choice: Ship a version with security holes that
don't have any instances of affecting Macs, or ship one that will
cause x% of Mac users to scream bloody murder because it makes Safari
crash.... What would you do?
heh.
-
Dan.
--
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
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