Re: OT: Myth # 13: Macs Are Safe From Malware Attacks
- From: "Sebastian G." <seppi@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 08:18:03 +0200
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Groepaz wrote:
| michelle ronn wrote:
|> Seeing that it took someone only 12 hours with a reasonable amount of
|> knowledge to hack OS X for a $10,000 prize, I am not depending on
|> Apple's "brilliance" to keep my OS X system secure.
|
| but you ARE aware that the smart guy used a (btw, formerly known and
| discussed) quicktime exploit that works on _any_ os that has quicktime? =P
|
| also, even with that exploit you couldnt do much harm, especially not
| install some kind of spambot (vast majority of windows attackers just want
| that). except if you use the exploit on windows ofcourse =P
What a nonsense. Of course you could install malware using this exploit on
any OS that has QuickTime installed. Why exactly should this be limited to
Windows?
Beside that, this contest was a completely different thing. The guy there
won due to a flaw in a *third-party WiFi card driver*.
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