Evil enters the Garden
Two recent articles:
"Mac users are being warned about what has been described as one of the first viruses for Apple's OS X software. The malicious program, known as Leap-A tries to spread via Apple's iChat instant messaging program. The worm disguises itself as images of Apple's forthcoming version of its operating system, called Leopard, and plunders buddy lists if installed."
haha - there you have it - Porn for Mac Users.
"Experts have uncovered a serious security bug in the way Apple software handles downloaded files. the loophole arises because of the way that Apple's OSX operating handles downloaded files. Although OSX displays an icon for files based on the suffix it finds on the program being downloaded i.e. jpg, it uses different criteria to decide what to do with these files. This makes it possible to have files look benign by labelling them as images but, behind the scenes the operating system will know it is dealing with a proper program and run it as such..."
So there it is - Evil enters the Garden. After four years of running footloose and fancy free through the internet -- paradise comes to an end. Now we will all see how secure OS X is? And how Apple responds? And how dumb (or not) Mac users are to click on things they know not off? And we may learn something about the critical mass necessary to get a virus to spread... so maybe apple should stop selling iPod's and go back to being a quiet little professional-media computer-making company.
Anonymity is so much simpler.
"Mac users are being warned about what has been described as one of the first viruses for Apple's OS X software. The malicious program, known as Leap-A tries to spread via Apple's iChat instant messaging program. The worm disguises itself as images of Apple's forthcoming version of its operating system, called Leopard, and plunders buddy lists if installed."
haha - there you have it - Porn for Mac Users.
"Experts have uncovered a serious security bug in the way Apple software handles downloaded files. the loophole arises because of the way that Apple's OSX operating handles downloaded files. Although OSX displays an icon for files based on the suffix it finds on the program being downloaded i.e. jpg, it uses different criteria to decide what to do with these files. This makes it possible to have files look benign by labelling them as images but, behind the scenes the operating system will know it is dealing with a proper program and run it as such..."
So there it is - Evil enters the Garden. After four years of running footloose and fancy free through the internet -- paradise comes to an end. Now we will all see how secure OS X is? And how Apple responds? And how dumb (or not) Mac users are to click on things they know not off? And we may learn something about the critical mass necessary to get a virus to spread... so maybe apple should stop selling iPod's and go back to being a quiet little professional-media computer-making company.
Anonymity is so much simpler.
posted by P3T3RK3Y5 for meltingearth
3 Comments:
It was only a matter of time... The whole "I don't need virus protection because viruses don't exist" argument seemed a little short-sighted to me.
Remember, it's on a Unix platform, ever heard of a Unix virus? ... you need to type in your username and password to install anything, even a virus. I can't imagine who would knowingly install something foreign.
This quote says it all...
The Windows platform has something like 150,000 documented examples of malware — viruses, Trojan horses, worms and so on. Presuming the Mac has five percent of the market, you’d expect to see about 7,500 if there were equivalent security problems. It’s so rare on the Mac, it’s an infinitesimally smaller sample size. You simply can’t predict a trend based on that small a number of data points,” Jaquith said.
more on that... best two:
Mac Attack a Load of Crap
Apple Malware hysteria continues
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