Salivating over Mobile Viruses, Mac fun

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>]

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Here's my joke of the day:

Q: Why did the anti-virus vendor cross the road?
A: To get to WinOtherSide.B

Hoho. Anyways, the real story behind the story is how badly the
anti-virus vendors want a piece of the mobile phone market. They're
salivating over it like a mangy dog over a dead buffalo. But right
now, and probably for the foreseeable future, mobile phone viruses are
extremely rare. So you have to hunt high and low for them in order to
show off your new shiny Windows CE anti-virus software, which is why
the antivirus companies were complaining instead of just telling MARA
to go away.

I've used Windows on the Treo, and it pretty much has a horrible user
interface. Anyone who's used both Windows on the phone and a Sidekick
for more than 20 seconds will ask themselves why every so often the
Windows phone puts up an annoying dialog box saying "Dialing...#777".
Not that the Sidekick is perfect, but it's much better to use as a
business phone than the highest end Windows phone, even without the
high speed internet.

http://test.doit.wisc.edu/ has a Mac challenge. They offer ssh and
http over the internet on a Mac Mini (PPC) to see if you can own it.
If you CAN own OpenSSH remotely, I'm betting you're not going to waste
your exploit on a game server. This is part of the fun of locals -
there are so many of them on any OS that you can sometimes spend one
for fun on a game.

- -dave

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