On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:

>
> Bruce said almost exactly one year ago:
>
>> As for security, there has been, to date ONE known exploit in the
>> wild for OS X. This after 6 years on the market, and it's not
>> widespread at all. Don't click on random porn spam links in web
>> forums and install the software they want you to, and you're fine :-)

And you know what, that advice is still pretty much exactly what I'd  
give today, save for 'Make sure Safari is updated too' since it now  
has the ant-phishing technology in it as well.

Still no in-the-wild malware, ClamAV is still the best AV solution....

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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