Msgs re security and virus information are confusing
This forum posted a msg (pasted in below) which I think may be inconsistent with the statements about no viruses being found on Macs. I am not sure what a "concept" virus is. Does that mean that iMacs are starting to have viruses? As a newbie I believe that either the messages saying we can't get a virus using an iMac, OR the messages such as the one below are inconsistent. After reading the following message in its entirety I think I need a lot more information about what to use to protect our expensive new computer from ANY kind of attacks. Please let me know what the following is talking about and whether my confusion is just jargon related. Thanks.
>>> Security company Secunia reports that a new vulnerability in the way Mac S X handles the "fpathconf()" system call has been discovered.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the "fpathconf()" syscall when it is called with an unsupported file type and can be exploited to cause a system panic.
The vulnerability was initially found in FreeBSD and was discovered in the latest version of 10.4.8 (with all patches applied) by Ilja Van Sprundel. The severity of the vulnerability is rated as "not critical," although a patch from Apple is not yet available. It is not currently known whether other systems (10.3.x, etc) are effected.
Recently, another Mac OS X concept virus was developed, code named OSX.Macarena. Similarly deemed "not critical", the virus is not known to be in the wild on more than 50 computers worldwide or at more than 2 sites (according to Symantec). <<
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