FroMann said:Better than downloading a third party anti virus application.
OS X now has an inbuilt antivirus. The day has come.
And so it begins .......
Žalgiris;12662449 said:There are no known viruses for Mac OS X. Get your facts straight and stop spreading misinformation, pal.
Endless stupidity. Sure.
There are no known viruses for Mac OS X. Get your facts straight and stop spreading misinformation, pal.
See System Preferences > security > General tab.
A Jail/Sandbox would make Trojans a none issue. Along with an out going firewall to stop phoning home. Finally only allowing applications to be executable/ran from specific directories. Now reason I should be able to run an app that's installed in another location besides the Applications folder. Unix apps that are installed in bin etc... Would need admin rights/sudo to be installed in the first place.
And yet they keep "Open 'safe' files" around in Safari. Get rid of that already.
do you think this will be failsafe when you're using a standard-account?
normal system-updates do not work when you're no admin.
(even though you can activate it in system prefs)
Oh don't be so pedantic. You knew what I meant.
This is very easy to demand, but you haven't thought through the consequences. (The main consequence being that all users including you would start screaming "Safari is broken! It doesn't open the documents that I'm downloading anymore!")
It doesn't matter if he knew what you meant. Misinformation is still misinformation regardless of what you intended to say. Nowadays there are not that many people who know the difference between a virus/trojan/worm/spyware (yes some people even confuse spyware for viruses).
And yet they keep "Open 'safe' files" around in Safari. Get rid of that already.
Cue new virus that pretends to be a malware update file, causing it to automatically be downloaded to millions of Macs, in 3, 2, 1.....
No, because it still doesn't get PC viruses.... or Mac viruses.Soon they will need to update this page to remove the bottom most left tile.
Uh... No.
The updater will be looking for information hosted on Apple's servers. The information is stored in a plist file (called XProtect.plist). A plist file is not executable. Never going to happen.
Soon they will need to update this page to remove the bottom most left tile.
That will never be incorrect. Mac OS X will never get PC viruses because it's a different architecture. You can't run a .exe file on a Mac and that's why it's instantly impossible. Further, a virus targets a specific vulnerability in the code that makes up an OS. Mac and Windows have different codebases (obviously they're written differently) so a virus that's written to infect Windows could not infect a MacIt doesn't get PC Viruses
Actually, Yes.
A UI could easily be made to ask the user to update their defintions. It could easily lie and say it was unable to connect to a server and therefore you must press OK now to do it.
Average user goes, Oh, Apple needs an update, clicks ok and boom. Infected.
As I understand correctly, you don't need to run some "Malware Test" it's all doing automatically yes?