Another Trojan hits Mac OS X

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This is good for Apple

I would say that malware counts are the best indication of desktop PC marketshare so congrats Apple, you really must be doing well now that you are being targeted so much! I'll leave you with a sobering thought:
It is easy to avoid being infected when you are never attacked. It is tougher to actually repel attacks. Note that the attacks don't have to be sophisticated or even rely on any weakness in the OS. I believe it was the Bagle worm that emailed itself to you in a password protected zip file (to avoid virus scanners) and gave you the password in the email. The user had to open the zip attachment, enter the password, and then run the program inside to get infected and pass the worm on to all his/her friends. It worked. Don't discount socially engineered attacks as "meaningless" since they have been extremely successful and will continue to be extremely successful, no matter the OS.

Anyway, congrats Apple! Hopefully it will take the general public a long time to realize that they aren't any safer with OS X than they were with Windows. Your marketing seriously depends on it.

Posted by: NonZealot   Posted on: 06/25/08  (Edited: 06/25/2008 @ 06:36) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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