Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Adobe Shockwave, Java, Firefox, Safari, QuickTime, etc. all have had numerous updates to fix vulnerabilities that are easily taken advantage of by simply visiting a website or even just viewing a malformed picture. Once you’ve done the deed, a keylogger can be easily sent to your computer. It doesn’t even matter if you have an antivirus, because unless it has a very-up-to-date definition or is really good at heuristic detection (with the need for a perfect definition), you’re screwed.
Viruses are no longer any real problem on any platform, as viruses basically go through email. It is all the other malware and vulnerability concern that you’ve got to worry about, and Apple systems are vulnerable to much of that.
Ok thanks.
For one, that’s another mystery here: I haven’t visited any sites that could possibly be considered “suspicious” in the last 72 hours. But still, thanks for the lesson.
This brings me to a question that I believe needs answered though: How do you guys, CM and TChad protect against such activity? It seems that what you are saying is, any site you visit could install a keylogger. So how can you protect against that, if antivirus won’t even pick it up?