Re: mac trojan in-the-wild

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Dude VanWinkle wrote:

<<snip>>
> <Dude, Channeling Mr Ovbvoius>
> Also the cost to buy the talent required to find malware on mac vs
> windows costs the same, but returns less.
> </end Dude, Channeling Mr Obvious>

Ummm -- you missed the real obvious...

Above is false for the simple reason that at least some anti-malware 
researchers can and do specialize in more than one malware target 
platform (and with Macs now using x86 chips, the Win32/Mac boundaries 
are less than they were previously).


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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