Re: mac trojan in-the-wild

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

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 guess
>
> I 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
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