RE: mac trojan in-the-wild

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > > Well, we'd make all Mac users -- who historically have thought they
> did not need to -- install some reliable and up-to-date form of malware
> detecting software, and have that software reliably and uniquely report
> their infected-/affected-ness to a central repository.
>
> Hmmm... What I thought.
>
> Even if it's very successful the numbers will probably be small enough
> that the folks who monitor botnets won't be able to notice them. In the
> Windows world the MSRT and AV companies can give us some sense of
> specific infection rates.

Not so. We can also count Linux infections and Windows is still larger in 
quantity.


> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com
>
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