Apple Invites Kaspersky Lab to Consult on OS X Security Issues [Updated: No]

[adrianweller]

First of all: woosh.

Secondly: sometimes a finger slips, or you accidentally missspell something while in the midst of typing out a scathing retort. Generally speaking, if you want to judge someone on intelligence, it's better to look at the structure and wording of their arguments (the syntax, if you will) rather than the spelling itself.

I say this because I abuse commas like a straight up mofo, and I'm always looking for some way to excuse it.

You spelt whoosh as woosh. That's all I nee - just kidding.

There was no woosh, I got what you were saying. I just wanted to make the point that I believe that it was a straight-up spelling error, and that it betrays a certain youth and/or inexperience. Someone who is just messin' around, trying to provoke reactions. Looking at that guy/girl's posts is where I really made my judgements.

 

[Powerbooky]

Grebennikov believes that Apple "doesn't pay enough attention to security", citing the Java vulnerability that led to hundreds of thousands of Flashback malware infections. That vulnerability was patched by Oracle before the outbreak, but Apple did not issue its own update to close the hole in time.

Grebennikov also notes that it is only a matter of time before malware begins showing up on iOS devices, believing that such threats will appear within the next year or so.

Yep... same goes for the invention of kitchen-knifes and guns. With all the regulations, permits en licenses to prevent misuse, in time someone will always find a way to bypass them and do bad things. You just can't prevent every bad thing from happening.

 

[7709876]

LOL, I got that from an report on world wide Mac weblog usage.

Yes, and more to computers than weblogs.

 

[mentaluproar]

The only way I can see this being the slightest bit true is if Apple does what microsoft did with microsoft security essentials. (Buy an antivirus product, changes the logos, and integrate auto update into the OS software update.)

 

[roadbloc]

Lol. This one was clearly false from the start. If anyone should know the most about OS X's security issues, it should be OS X's creator. Apple. If Apple has hired Kaspersky, it would have been showing that Apple don't know the first thing about their own OS.

 

[kot]

Any modern general purpose OS is vulnerable to malware since in order to stop malware completely you have to forbid running third-party code completely.

AV companies are useless and their business is largely a fraud since they deceive their customers into thinking that with buying that glitchy cr@p pile of code for some obscure reason called "antivirus software" they will be protected from all threats giving them a false sense of security.

 

[CplBadboy]

Sophos should be avoided, as it could actually increase your Mac's vulnerability, as described here, here and here.

Mac Virus/Malware Info by GGJstudios​

But then again, common sense is not that widespread, thus mediatory solutions have to be brought into the field.

I think that while your point is valid I will have to say that Sophos continually updates so any vulnerabilities that are found with one build are subsequently patched against a threat therefore surely its negligible and that having such the AV is complimentary to the ever growing insecure OS X. We already know that Apple are so stubborn to act quickly in preventing the spread of malware as seen with the Flashback trojan that having Sophos is surely a good thing.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

I think that while your point is valid I will have to say that Sophos continually updates so any vulnerabilities that are found with one build are subsequently patched against a threat therefore surely its negligible and that having such the AV is complimentary to the ever growing insecure OS X. We already know that Apple are so stubborn to act quickly in preventing the spread of malware as seen with the Flashback trojan that having Sophos is surely a good thing.

Such software is surely a good thing for people, who don't know better, of which there are many. But if one employs safe steps, as listed by Mister GGJstudios in his F.A.Q., one can live without such software. I do since 2004 and ran Sophos just out of geigel for a month and it never found any Mac OS X related threads, and I really tried by visiting all the shady sites I could think of. The only malware it found was for Windows (after visiting such a shady site) and those don't matter to me.

 

[mrxak]

There was Flashback out there not even a month ago. But that doesn't count, because it was Java.

Man...you people.

I said "can infect my system". I could purposefully try to infect myself with Flashback right now, and nothing would happen. I also said "virus" and Flashback is not a virus. There will always be malware trojans, and no security will ever stop user incompetence.

I could take my Windows partition and try to infect it with stuff. The results would be different.