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Re: mac trojan in-the-wild
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:14:43 -0400
On 10/31/07, David Harley <david.a.harley () gmail com> wrote:
err doesn't virustotal only detect windows viruses?Strictly speaking, VT doesn't detect anything. It just reports what certain scanners report. (I know that sounds patronizing: bear with me...) But a couple of those scanners should detect Mac malware. VirusBarrier isn't one of the scanners they use, though, and I haven't yet seen anything on this on the McAfee, Sophos or Symantec web sites. But that may only mean that those vendors haven't been able to secure a sample through "normal" channels -- Intego are long-established, but strictly Mac and a bit out of the mainstream.They dont have virex listed in the scanners, but ClamAV could be the BSD version.. I guessI don't think ClamAV does Mac-specific malware, generally, even ClamXav which is just the Clam engine on a Mac platform. If you respond to this, please don't go all anti-AV on me tonight: I've been mauled enough for one evening, and I'm just trying to help...
No worries :-) I had evaluated av solutions for a university and found out that McAfee Virex did not detect windows viruses. I thought this was just standard operating procedure for AV, as scanning every OS for every virus might be too CPU intensive for an app. -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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