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To: Swordmaker
Some infection numbers from Sophos from people who run their software. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/18/free-anti-virus-for-mac-150000-active-users-and-plenty-of-malware-found/


9 posted on 05/05/2011 5:14:17 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop; Swordmaker

I suspect that the chart reflects the activity of Sophos software installed on Macs. (Yes, some people can be conned into buying av for Macs.) It says that is what Sophos saw and intercepted. What it does not say is that had there been no Sophos software that the Mac OS would have also intercepted those things and warned the users not to install them, or they simply fell harmlessly to the side with no affect on the Mac.


11 posted on 05/05/2011 6:18:13 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (I retain the right to be inconsistent, contradictory and even flat-out wrong!)
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To: MrShoop

“infection numbers” is a truly deceiving name - considering how many in the list are even CAPABLE of “infecting” an OS X machine....

A more accurate naming would be “malware detected”... because this would include such that were in downloaded files, in emails, etc. This does NOT mean these machines were actually “infected”.

A Mac can be a carrier, just as that thumb drive you carried files to work on. But that thumb drive isn’t necessarily “infected”... just has a malware file stored on it.


17 posted on 05/06/2011 9:00:15 AM PDT by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: MrShoop
Some infection numbers from Sophos from people who run their software. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/18/free-anti-virus-for-mac-150000-active-users-and-plenty-of-malware-found/

MrShoop, That chart was reported on and discussed on FR back in November. It would never have been a news item had not Sophos' AV not basically TURNED OFF the anti-malware that OSX itself has in place to block Trojans. Of those 19 listed malware, only TWO are OSX Trojans. . .OSX/Jahlav-C and OSX.DNSCha-E . . . the rest are ALL Windows malware that were found imbedded in JPEGS, FLASH, eMails, etc. None of which would have any effect on a Mac. The two that could have had an effect on a Mac would have been blocked by the Mac itself had not Sophos effectively gotten in the way so THEIR anti-virus could find something. Whoopee-doo. This report and Sophos way of generating is considered unethical, to deliberately prevent the SYSTEM from doing its job so your software CAN FIND SOMETHING? Pathetic. That's the essence of Scareware.

23 posted on 05/06/2011 12:59:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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