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Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X
From: "Gargac. Jeff" <jgargac () MARYVILLE EDU>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:54:59 -0500
There have also been cases of malware being bundled with torrents of Apple software. I have not personally seen an infected Mac, but I have heard personal stories of Macs with pop up ads from being infected. Sophos currently provides a client for OS X as part of their Endpoint Security and Control product. Thanks, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Joel Rosenblatt Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:49 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X We rarely, if every actually see the compromised systems - we track behaviors, and I know that from help desk reports, people have claimed that "it can't be my machine sending out that spam ... I'm using a Mac (also, the MAC address belongs to Apple.)" I know we have captured infected Macs, but as to what they were infected with, I leave that to places with a better staff to machine ratio :-) Joel --On Monday, May 04, 2009 1:38 PM -0400 Gene Spafford <spaf () cerias purdue edu> wrote:
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 StockdaleJoel 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
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
Current thread:
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X, (continued)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Caroline Couture (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Joel Rosenblatt (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X David Auclair (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Gene Spafford (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Gene Spafford (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Peters, Kevin (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Stanclift, Michael (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Stanclift, Michael (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Joel Rosenblatt (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Eric C. Lukens (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Gargac. Jeff (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Noah Abrahamson (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Morrow Long (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Cal Frye (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Spransy, Derek (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X King, Ronald A. (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Chris Green (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X King, Ronald A. (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Mark Borrie (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Gene Spafford (May 04)
- Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X Cal Frye (May 05)
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