Friday, July 14, 2006

Symantec Posts "Mac OS X: Viruses and Security" Article

"Let's 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... As I tell my internal and external customers alike, just because there are no file-infecting viruses that can affect Mac OS X now, that doesn't mean there won't be a really nasty one released in the next five minutes. The likelihood of that happening is comparatively low and could be debated ad nauseam..."

1 Comments:

Blogger kurt wismer said...

actually, there's a file infecting virus for osx already... i'm not sure why the blogger at symantec said there were none, especially when he links to the write-up for one (the page he links to states it does infect files)...

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