If past events are any guide, this should all happen circa 2026, of course. Who knows how many other vulnerabilities Apple is typically being lackadaisical about patching. Apple only got its act together and provided a patch after this thing was running rampant and they were getting kicked in the behind because of very bad PR. This provided plenty of opportunity for infection. You know as well as I that Apple was 7 weeks late with the Java patch for the vulnerability that was exploited. And it wouldn't have made any difference if you were fully updated or not if you had Java enabled. Almost everyone impacted by the recent Flashback incident had never updated their systems.ġ. If past events are any guide, this should all happen circa 2026, of course.Įtresoft wrote: You really don't need to do anything. Which would you rather do? Scan your system 24x7 for 99.9% Windows viruses for the next ten years? Or take a less-than-1% chance of getting some weak trojan in the next ten years? Even if you do get that trojan, an Apple software update will get rid of it within a few days. I'm sure people will chime in with their own favorites. You can run additional anti-virus software if you want. Almost everyone impacted by the recent Flashback incident had never updated their systems. But, one can never be too careful.Īre there any suggestions from the community? I keep my system up to date with the latest updates/patches and I am very careful of the web-sites that I visit. The more 3rd party software you install, like Java, Adobe, especially any Peer-to-peer software, will increase the vulnerability. Contrary to what the anti-virus or Apple-basher crowds tell you, Mac's have never been, nor have their users ever claimed them to be, invulnerable. It is just that anything with the word "Apple" in the headline gets viewers and, consequently, advertisers. Theyve been trying to hack the Mac for decades. Since Mac's are beginning to raise the interest of the hacker community All of the anti-virus tools spend 99.9% of their time checking for Windows malware so you don't accidentally e-mail it to a poor, hapless Windows user. I'm interested in providing additional protection for my iMac by installing an application that will detect various forms of Malware aimed at the Mac OS X system.Īs far as I know, the only software that checks for that, and only that, is MacOS X itself.
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