I think your safe to be honest - perhaps not for ever, but for quite a while. Theres no doubt in my mind that since osx is based on unix its going to be a lot more securer than any offering from ms and I don't think this will change any time soon.
However, you do here of unix based systems being exploited and I think that in the coming years when apples market share increases you'll see more attacks on macs, probably concentrating on apps as apposed to the os. Even so, any exploit that can be run against the app is useless if the app doesn't have access to crytical system functions. On 20/08/2009, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > > This gets into a funny grey area. On the one hand most folks have used > macs for years without any issues of viruses or malware. Some argue it's > because the system is more secure while others say its because the mac > market is a much smaller target, not worth the effort. It's hard to find > info on this since many of the articles and sites are connected to > selling software to find/scan/remove bad stuff which may or may not even > be needed. Likewise articles from blackhat conferences and the like only > prove that it is possible but provide no context as to whether these > things are really being done in the real world. My own anecdotal > evidence is that not a single Mac owner I know of nor on any mac-related > mailing list I'm on has had a single mention of somebody getting > infected with something on the Mac. This isn't proof, but it's a high > correlation between using a mac and safe computing. Others might still > argue that as the Mac market share has grown the oasis of pulchritude is > drying up and we'll be just like Windows when the baddies take notice. > Maybe, but so far the ice hasn't cracked and nobody has fallen through. > > CB > > James & Nash wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> With all this talk of viruses on the list recently this got me thinking. >> As >> Mac OS X is Unix based, is there the possibility that we could be attacked >> >> by Root Kits and if so is there a program for the Mac which can stop these >> >> attacks? Under Linux there is RKHunter which is very good. I do not mind >> command line based tools if they are the only ones around. >> >> Thanks >> Take care >> >> >> > >> > > > > -- Kind regards, BEN. email: bmustillr...@gmail.com msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
