To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- PinkFreud wrote: > Gadi already made the point that the significance of this lies in > professional malware authors taking notice of Apple. If this trojan > was written for, say, NetBSD, or perhaps ReactOS, I know *my* reaction > would be the same - 'wow, the malware authors are taking notice of a > new platform!'. That *is* significant, and those who are chalking that > reaction up to 'anti-Apple zealotry' are sorely mistaken. > fair enough, both your points there are quite valid and I wasn't denying the significance of malware authors taking notice to apple, just that this being considered in the wild is a bit overboard.
> There is a second point being made here, too - Apple isn't exactly > known for writing bug-free code (I've already given some examples > earlier in this thread), and they're not exactly known for fixing bugs > until they're absolutely forced to. This is liable to create problems > down the road - given that the malware authors are now starting to take > notice of Macs, they'll undoubtedly try a few exploits before long. I > just hope Apple has patched all known holes by then... :) > My point is, where's the bug in apple's code here? There's nothing apple can do about human stupidity in ignoring all of the message boxes before this trojan can be installed. _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
