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

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

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 Safari (and Apple Mail) issue, new and upcoming Mac OS users will remember many online news linking to Extremely Critical Secunia advisory http://secunia.com/advisories/18963/ . It's worth of mentioning that only 0.86% of company's advisories has been rated as this highest level 5/5:

http://secunia.com/graph/?type=all&graph=cri (real-time statistics covering years 2003..2006)

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