Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic

Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-02-24

At first blush, the past two weeks have not been good for the image of Apple's Mac OS X: Public descriptions of two worms and a trivial exploit for a serious software issue in the operating system appeared on the Internet.

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Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic 2006-02-24
Penguinisto

"Many Mac users believe they are better protected than the average Windows user against malicious attacks."

...to an extent, they're right. You really have to work at it to compomise a Mac to the same point that Windows comes standard with when it comes to system-wide permissions. OTOH, no one sh...

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Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic 2006-02-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

I'd hardly call a browser drive-by that downloads and executes an arbitrary program "largely academic". Nor is a flaw whereby the OS gives every indication that a file is harmless (in this example it looks like a jpeg), but treats it as an executable when opened from the email reader, "largely acad...

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Re: Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic 2006-03-11
Anonymous

the sorts of braindead flaws that Microsoft has (mostly) corrected over the past 3-4 years.

You mean "(continuosly) corrected" don't you....

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Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic 2006-02-24
Juha-Matti Laurio

All of these three threats are changing consumer's behaviour when buying a new Mac, i.e. asking the importance of AV program from a reseller. We don't see this change immediately, but during next months. Many old Mac users are priorizing the importance of AV again, as well.

When talking about the S...

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