Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

["Stanclift, Michael" <michael.stanclift () ROCKHURST EDU>]

No, they are usually exploits for Safari or QuickTime on the Mac.


Michael Stanclift
Network Analyst
Rockhurst University

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-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Gene 
Spafford
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:39 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

But what software is involved?  Are those machines also running  
Windows in a VMware type environment?   I have been monitoring various  
news outlets and samples, and have yet to see a real threat running in  
the wild.  (Leaving out the attack that is included in pirated  
software that leads to the botnet.)


On May 4, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Joel Rosenblatt wrote:

> Only if you believe everything you see on TV :-)
>
> We are seeing Mac's sending spam, scanning, etc.  ... all of the  
> things that you see in a good Windows box.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Joel Rosenblatt
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
>
>
> --On Monday, May 04, 2009 1:03 PM -0400 Caroline Couture <caroline () POBOX UPENN EDU 
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I thought that the general thinking was to have anti-virus on the  
> > Mac to prevent it from being a transmission vector for things like  
> > macro viruses, I can see
> > tripwire helping with compromises of Darwin.
> > Is that no longer the thinking?
> >
> > Caroline
> >
> > Caroline Couture
> > College House Computing
> > 3702 Spruce Street
> > Philadelphia, PA 19104
> >
> > You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end --  
> > which you can never afford to lose -- with the discipline to  
> > confront the most brutal facts
> > of your current reality, whatever they might be. -- Vice Admiral  
> > James Bond Stockdale
>
>
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel