Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) well i was on youtube and then i saw this video from f-secure at 5:30 he begins to talk about the new MAC viruses that came out... eh here we go with this {censored}... do you think that macs will ever have as many viruses as a pc? EDIT: here are more links about the viruses im adding these to the link that i already have in here leap Edited February 1, 2007 by Conan Obrien Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippin Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 No Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 There is a new mac virus? Links, proofs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) There is a new mac virus? Links, proofs? My Hackintosh got a virus, it's called Windows. gt p.s. I would like to see some links and info of this so called Mac Virus. Edited February 1, 2007 by goodtime Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) oh friggin god u guys there is a link in my first post to it... read the whole thing before commenting Edited February 1, 2007 by Conan Obrien Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 were can you get one? my compy just shut down unexpectedly Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 were can you get one? my compy just shut down unexpectedly they are not that popular yet... if i remember correctly mikko hypponen said they were released sometime in 2006 but we all know that viruses grow and develop so i hope that apple stays on top of this issue Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 i added a link to the sophos site where they talk about one of these viruses Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I still feel safe on OSX, even if a new virus came out every hour for 365 days a year for OSX it would still take 15 years to be at the number of Windows viruses it has today. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 It brings up a good point though. Does anyone feel confident with the anti-virus products currently on the market for Mac? Personally I have not been impressed with any of the packages I have seen so far. Let's face facts, Macs will start having more virii in the wild as more and more people switch over. The best defense is a good offense and the anti-virus prods out there seem more like toys then actual decent software. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 oh friggin god u guys there is a link in my first post to it... read the whole thing before commenting No, what I meant was other news links other source confirming this virus news. gt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 here are more links about the new viruses im adding these to the link that i already have in hereleap Leap is almost a year old. << 16 February 2006 >> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 No, what I meant was other news links other source confirming this virus news. gt why even bother with other links? mikko is one of the most popular, smartest people when it comes to anti virus research and programming Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) Leap is almost a year old. << 16 February 2006 >> i said it is one of the viruses... not all of them and because it is a year old that does not mean that noone has been developing the thing to make it stronger, etc... Edited February 1, 2007 by Conan Obrien Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
head Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 thats like the same news i read last year. oh, and the year before last year.... and the year before the year that was before this year! or last year? well, i think you get what i mean - you can get great publicity talking bout mac-virii - and nothing more ;-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 It brings up a good point though. Does anyone feel confident with the anti-virus products currently on the market for Mac? Personally I have not been impressed with any of the packages I have seen so far. Let's face facts, Macs will start having more virii in the wild as more and more people switch over. The best defense is a good offense and the anti-virus prods out there seem more like toys then actual decent software. I've been impressed with ClamXAV. I've dragged sample (Windows) virii onto my Mac desktop and Clam caught them. But let's face it, Macs should have had more virii well before Leap-A. OS9 and below had quite a few of them and OS X (several years into it) has what, three? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Leap is almost a year old. << 16 February 2006 >> thats like the same news i read last year. oh, and the year before last year.... and the year before the year that was before this year! or last year? well, i think you get what i mean - you can get great publicity talking bout mac-virii - and nothing more ;-) why am i getting flamed for a statement made by a company that i am in no way affiliated with? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Not you, for the Virus... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) Sorry Conan. Must be that time of the month. I might be post-crankly from the Dell ordeal. Maybe you should tell us some jokes about the new iPhone. The Mac sky is falling, the sky is falling. Oh wait, that's the Vista Aero glass sky that is falling. hehe gt Edited February 1, 2007 by goodtime Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 One year has past, where are the supposed Virus? Antivirus making companies will love to see a mac virus, a real one, not like the Leap wich requieres the user to run it - Bill gates, microsoft, norton, everybody would be amazed to see a Mac Virus, where is it ? Virus control is a huge bussines, who really wins with the virus? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) One year has past, where are the supposed Virus? Antivirus making companies will love to see a mac virus, a real one, not like the Leap wich requieres the user to run it - Bill gates, microsoft, norton, everybody would be amazed to see a Mac Virus, where is it ? Virus control is a huge bussines, who really wins with the virus? as ive said leap is one out of the 4 the point isnt that there are only 4 the point is that they have started making viruses for OSX Edited February 1, 2007 by Conan Obrien Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 give Conan a break he was just the messenger of this news. And its just to point out that there is some people trying to make some viruses, besides i dont beliebe that Osx "its so unpenetrable" as many of you claim. to OSx security fans: Lets just think about how many virus-makers have a Mac , and you think they will want to make a virus that will afect less than the 2% of the Computers. Zealot . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The news is old, close to a year now. Sure there are virus for OSX, why not? Writting self replicating code is easy as driving bike. But with the low amount of macs world wide it is kind of useless for people who write such code. Some even write virii just for making money with it, see the bad trojan hords out there. The most mac viriis I read about are sometimes just self copieng shell scripts, not realyl hard to defeat. The one you posted above is the old one they spread via mac rumors and it's "evil" last only a few days until it died in the public since it was not really a risk at all and could easly be spotted either. Noone ever declined that there will be more mac virii in the future, but without a for virii write reasonable marketshare, it will die before it has started. A big pandemia with mac virii is currently not really possible, at least as long noone ever develops either OS independant virii code (->"vm" box viruii) or cross OS infection code (-> can infect linux, mac ...) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 so y does apple say there are no viruses for osx if there are? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I think what Apple is trying to say, is simply that there haven't been any Mac viruses on a scale such as Blaster (or any other large scale infection)...basically, nothing that can genuinely hurt the average mac user. Of course, this is due, as semthex pointed out, to the fact that OS X has a far smaller market share than it's Windows counterpart. Of course, that begs an interesting question; since Apple maintains such a smug outlook on the immunity of their mac's, I'm surprised no one has taken up the challenge of making a large-scale Mac virus, if only to prove them wrong. You could point to market share again, but I still find it funny...it just adds more fire to the debate as to whether OS X's lack of viruses is due truly to their smaller userbase, or simply good programming on Apple's part, imo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40738-mac-viruses/#findComment-291404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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