Re: Symmantic: No Viruses for OS X


"Jim Polaski" <jpolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <JZUtg.130887$dW3.82518@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John Slade" <hhitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Jim Polaski" <jpolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From Daily Tech

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3322#45598

"According to a blog on Symantec's own website, the company says that
as
of
right now, there are no virus threats that exist for Apple's UNIX-based
OS
X
operating system. Starting with 10.4.7, OS X is as secure as it gets
according
to Todd Woodward of Symantec. Woodward goes on to say that "long before
the
digital ink dried on those simplistic and sensational headlines our
Security
Response team had determined that OSX.Leap.A was a worm, and not a
file-infecting virus."

Now read what it says and realize that someone is taking someone's
blog
at taking it as the gospel truth. Symantec is not officially saying this
because there have been one or two viruses for OS X this year. Now some
call
it a worm but it also had elements than copied itself to OS X system
files.
So that makes it both a worm and a virus, this is called a hybrid. But
don't
expect an Mac Kook to realize this until there are 100 viruses for OS X.
Then they will claim they don't exist.

John

old slade is feeling defensive again, denying what Symantec has said, so
lets
try it again since he's challenged:

Here's the take since slade is clik challenged:

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/07/macinenterpri
se_mac_os_x_virus.html

or, just for slade,

http://tinyurl.com/jnuc5

"Lets start with the hot-button issue of Mac OS X viruses. Simply put, at
the
time of writing this article, there are no file-infecting viruses that can
infect Mac OS X."

I like this part the best.

"Before you think that this is starting to look like an advocacy piece for
Mac OS X, please remember that Mac OS X has been tested by worms, Trojan
horses, rootkits, and other various security vulnerabilities. Most recently,
in the wake of Apple releasing Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.4.7 updates,
Symantec released a high severity advisory through our DeepSight Threat
Management System for all versions of Mac OS X 10.4.x prior to 10.4.7.
Shortly thereafter, proof of concept code was released publicly, which
triggered a Category 1 threat advisory for OSX.Exploit.Launchd."

Thanks for providing info on that security alert. Also I suspect now
you will never cite any Windows virus that isn't in the wild or is actually
a trojan or worm. In the past you've done what you claim I do.

Now everyone who paid attention knows there were two Mac viruses in the
wild. One of them infected files on the same computer and did other things.
So you can't lie and say that nothing was found in the wild. Now please go
back to whining about every tiny security hole you find in Windows while
ignoring the gaping holes in OS X that will allow arbitrary code to be run
without permission. It's kinda like ActiveX in Internet Explorer you guys
cite.

John


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