tcrooks wrote on 4/2/09 at 08:44 > >The usual tosh from people in the computer security business keen to >sell product and services into the Mac segment.
But I'm not sure it was 'the usual tosh'. He said that now we have a trojan and a route for it, there is a group of Mac users whose machines are not free of viruses. That was quite accurate. I suspect it was spot on, I seem to remember having skimmed it that he said this was a small but genuine change in the situation, and that is accurate. There IS a group of Mac users whose machines have a Trojan now which wil only disappear if they do a clean install or run a virus-check. > >This doesn't mean that Mac users shouldn't be vigilant but the time >still hasn't come to load up your OS X system with anti-malware >software that dims your lights, slows down your system and generally >gets in the way of enjoying your OS X experience. I think it's important to remember that there are always new people coming into using macs who don't quite know the situation. I agree that we should not be running constant checkers but it's worth mentioning free options like ClamAV. It's probably worth running this occasionally whatever your usage eg in case you pass on a Word virus. It also raises the possibility that if someone posts to the list about problems, we should wonder whether they have this Trojan (they may not volunteer info about whether they illegally download software). Does anyone know what this Trojan actually does? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
