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<blockquote data-quote="Chud" data-source="post: 1020485" data-attributes="member: 145344">That's a pretty strong statement there.&nbsp; What about the recent Botnet trojan that was found inside cracked versions of Photoshop for Mac &amp; iWork 09?&nbsp;&nbsp; There's also the OSX/Inqtana.A, a Java-based worm that exploits a vulnerability in the Bluetooth file and object exchange services in Mac OS X 10.4.&nbsp; Lots of other info out there about Mac viruses that go all the way back to the beginnings of OSX that counter the false idea that there are no OSX viruses.I had a CIS PhD almost laugh me out of the room at a lab meeting for suggesting that same notion just recently.&nbsp; Oops!&nbsp; Wasn't that embarrassing now?&nbsp; They do exist and are out there, they are just not as common as PC viruses but they are getting there...&quot;According to another online security company, Intego, as of January 2009, over 20,000 Mac users were known to have their computers infected with the Botnet trojan or other viruses. This, of course, is just a fraction of the number of PCs infected with malware; but it represents a sharp rise in the number of Macs affected over the past two years.&quot;Keep yer interwebz safe y'all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chud, post: 1020485, member: 145344"] That's a pretty strong statement there. What about the recent Botnet trojan that was found inside cracked versions of Photoshop for Mac & iWork 09? There's also the OSX/Inqtana.A, a Java-based worm that exploits a vulnerability in the Bluetooth file and object exchange services in Mac OS X 10.4. Lots of other info out there about Mac viruses that go all the way back to the beginnings of OSX that counter the false idea that there are no OSX viruses. I had a CIS PhD almost laugh me out of the room at a lab meeting for suggesting that same notion just recently. Oops! Wasn't that embarrassing now? They do exist and are out there, they are just not as common as PC viruses but they are getting there... [I]"According to another online security company, Intego, as of January 2009, over 20,000 Mac users were known to have their computers infected with the Botnet trojan or other viruses. This, of course, is just a fraction of the number of PCs infected with malware; but it represents a sharp rise in the number of Macs affected over the past two years."[/I] Keep yer interwebz safe y'all. [/QUOTE]

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