Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Noah Abrahamson wrote:
> Stanford uses Sophos for both Macs and PCs, distributing it freely to
> all campus affiliates. On Windows platforms, it's both AV and
> anti-malware. The Mac version is a good network citizen; it's detects
> PC viruses. It also protects Macs against Office macro viruses, and
> purports to protect against Trojan horses and worms, pedantics aside.
> I would expect it to also protect against future Mac malware.

We've seen several instances of DNS changer trojans here on our Macs,
but it's unclear to me yet if Sophos has caught any of them.

Our experience with spamming from Macintosh machines is much as Morrow
describes; compromised user accounts, in our case all via SSH.

The problem of Macs being carriers for Office macro viruses is an
ongoing low-level issue here, so Mac antivirus applications do have
their uses.

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