Viruses on OS X - Page 24

ElDiabloConCaca · #**185** February 24th, 2006, 02:40 PM

Well, technically, there are two viruses on the Mac now, but neither work correctly.

Also, as of now, you cannot be mysteriously and unwittingly infected with a virus -- these viruses require user interaction in the form of clicking, double-clicking, authenticating, or a number of other user actions in order to try to do any damage (and they don't do any meaningful damage anyway).

The point is: you can't "get" infected. You must infect yourself presently by direct user interation with these viruses. You'd know if you got infected the minute you got infected. It's not going to be a situation where your computer starts to act a little funky one day... you'll know it the minute it happens.

eliezer · #**186** March 6th, 2006, 11:17 AM

http://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/...4-7065ca04fdf3

Here it says that there is a worm for mac os x 10.4

perfessor101 · #**187** March 6th, 2006, 11:35 AM

If you have installed Apple's "Security Update 2006-001 PPC" you are covered. It isn't much of a worm anyway and according the Symantec, Sophos, and others the risk was very very low, its spread was minimal (I believe 2 sites), and ease of removal was a piece of cake.

lbhammond · #**188** March 9th, 2006, 12:57 AM

Is it possible to migrate a virus from OS9 to OSX when data transferring?
(please refer to my posting for macOSXsystems-it will show my myriad of symptoms that may have come from my imac.OS9-to-ibkG3.OSX1.-to-ibkG4.OSX3.-to-ibkG4.OSX4.)
-lbhammond

SatCure · #**189** March 9th, 2006, 03:02 AM

I've been using Macs since 1987 and I've never seen a Mac OS9 virus. The chances of acquiring one now are infinitesimally small. It just won't happen. And they won't run on OSX. I doubt they'll even run under Classic.

lightsabre · #**190** March 12th, 2006, 06:16 PM

all this talk of viruses...the only virus like activity ive ever had was from once being on shithouse proxy server windoze based, that screwed with all my video settings and stuff

xris · #**191** March 14th, 2006, 09:09 PM

I seem to be gettting another message from appletalk.com.au
they have a number of 'headlines' regarding virus attacks and hacking into Mac OS X.
>>Even Matt Drudge got into the game, with headlines on his heavily-trafficked Drudge Report Web site that screamed: "Two Viruses Target Apple's Macintosh."<<
>> One piece of malicious software was dubbed Leap-A. It masqueraded as Jpeg images of screen shots of the next version of Mac OS X.<<
>>The other one, known as OSX.Inqtana.A, was designed to spread through a vulnerability in Bluetooth wireless technology that was patched by Apple eight months ago.<<
>>A third vulnerability -- this one a potential chink in the armor, rather than a piece of naughty software -- was disclosed early this week. Apple's Safari Web browser has a feature that lets you open downloaded files that are considered safe as soon as the download is complete>>

According to the Hacker 'gwerdna', the hacked Mac could have been better protected, but it would not have stopped him because he exploited a vulnerability that has not yet been made public or patched by Apple.

**fryke** · #**192** March 15th, 2006, 03:52 AM

hm. that's from last week, i believe. we discussed this in another thread, and it's been discussed widely. "gwerdna" (Andrew G) had local access. It's like inviting a thief into your house and showing him where the safe is, then leaving him alone with all his tools. So: Forget about it.