gabriel rosenkoetter on 23 Apr 2009 00:08:49 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] It's happening. Mac Viruses


At 2009-04-22 14:45 -0700, Edmond Rodriguez <erodrig_97@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's happening, I wonder what this means for Linux?
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/22/first.mac.botnet/index.html

Yeah, that's totally NEVER happened before.

  http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+os+x+virus

For bonus hits, try that after s,virus,trojan,.

It turns out that Mac OS X, as for all Unix-like operating systems,
is vulnerable to operator incompetence. There really won't ever be
a technical fix for that. As I say at work, "That's an HR issue,
not a security issue."

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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