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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 80468" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>Interesting. I get over 300,000 hits for "Loch Ness monster" on Google. Wonder how they fit all those monsters in one lake? They must all be real, right?</p><p></p><p>Maybe you should click on some of those hits you found. You might learn something.</p><p></p><p>First, OS X is very different from OS 9. There were several dozen viruses affecting OS 9, all of which became irrelevant with the advent of OS X. When people serch for "Mac virus," they often get some of those.</p><p></p><p>Now, on OS X, there are a couple of points of interest.</p><p></p><p>First, <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63000,00.html?tw=rss.TEK" target="_blank">this trojan horse scare</a> hit last year. Basically, an anti-virus software company invented a trojan to scare people and drum up sales. They were discredited.</p><p></p><p>Second, there's <a href="http://www.macintouch.com/opener.html" target="_blank">Opener</a>. Opener seems to be an actual worm, in that it copies itself to mounted volumes on infected systems.</p><p></p><p>However, it's really hard to become infected. <a href="http://secunia.com/virus_information/12913/sh.renepo.b/" target="_blank">Secunia</a> categorizes it as "very low risk" as does <a href="http://Infection starts with*the execution of the opener.sh file via manual execution, pretending to be something else, or automatically by sharehopping.*Properly configured OS X systems,*with no*filesharing enabled and not running root/superuser/admin rights should not be vulnerable." target="_blank">McAfee</a> (which makes antivirus software as well.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>And that's pretty much it. One fairly impotent worm, a few made-up trojans, and no viruses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 80468, member: 4134"] Interesting. I get over 300,000 hits for "Loch Ness monster" on Google. Wonder how they fit all those monsters in one lake? They must all be real, right? Maybe you should click on some of those hits you found. You might learn something. First, OS X is very different from OS 9. There were several dozen viruses affecting OS 9, all of which became irrelevant with the advent of OS X. When people serch for "Mac virus," they often get some of those. Now, on OS X, there are a couple of points of interest. First, [URL=http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63000,00.html?tw=rss.TEK]this trojan horse scare[/URL] hit last year. Basically, an anti-virus software company invented a trojan to scare people and drum up sales. They were discredited. Second, there's [URL=http://www.macintouch.com/opener.html]Opener[/URL]. Opener seems to be an actual worm, in that it copies itself to mounted volumes on infected systems. However, it's really hard to become infected. [URL=http://secunia.com/virus_information/12913/sh.renepo.b/]Secunia[/URL] categorizes it as "very low risk" as does [URL=Infection starts with*the execution of the opener.sh file via manual execution, pretending to be something else, or automatically by sharehopping.*Properly configured OS X systems,*with no*filesharing enabled and not running root/superuser/admin rights should not be vulnerable.]McAfee[/URL] (which makes antivirus software as well.) And that's pretty much it. One fairly impotent worm, a few made-up trojans, and no viruses. [/QUOTE]
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