On Sep 21, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I dunno about it being snake oil, but the number of viruses on the Macintosh OS X are very few, but there are ones out there.
Bullsh*t!
Prove it!
Not ONE AV vendor or Security site makes ANY mention of OS X 'virus'
Intego showed of an alleged 'virus' some months back, it was merely an application 'hidden' by a document icon and the file creator claimed as iTunes, but it was a file type 'appl'
This is something that's existed since Macs were Macs (I could have done the same in System 4), and frankly, were they a problem we'd been overrun with them long ago.
It was a proof of concept of how to hide a trojan, and not a very good one. 'Get Info' on the file showed that the alleged iTunes music file was indeed an application
<http://oscar.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/Trojan_poc_finderview.pdf>
It lacked any means of propagating itself, any means of running as a superuser process, any means of doing anything to the systems.
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