malware in safari?

[simsaladimbamba]

sorry what do you mean ?

You need to manually install a trojan and give it access to system related files and folders via entering your password.

The only anti-virus you need to protect your Mac is education and common sense.

Mac Virus/Malware Info​

windows uses DLL files and Exe files and the registry when most Unix,Linux and Mac OS X do not.

Yes.

humm the DLL ,exe and registry are good way for malware to mess up your system.

Yes.

Not say registry errors over the years of computer use.

And now I am lost.
English is not your first language I suppose?

 

[nec207]

You need to manually install a trojan and give it access to system related files and folders via entering your password.

The problem with most malware today is the internet has evolved than plain text like the use of active-x ,Java ,scrip,macro and flash. All these things can be used for good or bad.

No browser is perfect even with a use of a good sanbox and when one goes into setting and disable active-x and tighten up the security.Mostly no one use the bad active-x now days other than very old web sites and Microsoft.

So again even with good sanbox and tighten up the security the malware can makes way on to the system.

When it is on the system it can do any thing you can do that has read or write privileges !!!

DOS ,windows 1x ,windows 2x, windows 3x and windows 9x like windows 95,98,98SE and Me was base on DOS and ran has full admin mode.

Where windows 2000 ,windows XP ,windows vista and windows 7 base on NT the use if user accounts with different level of user read or write privileges.

The problem for home use is most people have only one account that has full read and write privileges.The implementation of UAC in windows vista and windows 7 is joke of security that most time malware slips by UAC .

The sudo and gksu in Unix ,Linux or Mac OS X do is say yap you are a user confirm you authorization .But some one can still slip some malware in that will elevate with your privileges of runing sudo and gksu .And if you only have one account and it is gets malware you are out of luck.

Not say registry errors over the years of computer use.

And now I am lost.
English is not your first language I suppose?

over the years of computer use you can get errors in the registry .That is why some people do back ups and use registry cleaner.

 

[munkery]

The sudo and gksu in Unix ,Linux or Mac OS X do is say yap you are a user confirm you authorization .But some one can still slip some malware in that will elevate with your privileges of runing sudo and gksu .And if you only have one account and it is gets malware you are out of luck.

There are no examples of malware in the wild acheiving privilege escalation via exploitation in Mac OS X.

There has been proof of concept privilege escalation exploits that work by waiting for the user to sudo a specific vulnerable process to also gain privileges. But, the scenarios for this to occur are unlikely given the processes that can be used, such as Java, never need elevated privileges and it only works with sudo from the command line. This trick does not work with the GUI authentication prompt.

In relation to the Windows registry, some parts of the registry often contain privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Registry errors most likely would be an unreliable means to exploit a system given that the location of errors would not be consistent across different machines unlike priv esc vulnerabilities. I personally like the registry tool called CCleaner.