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Posted on 05/05/2006 12:36:56 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Fresh news reports of nasty bugs aimed at Apple computers have rekindled the age-old debate: are Macs safe? Here's the lowdown
The latest round of Apple (AAPL) ads aimed at convincing consumers to drop their Windows PCs and join the millions of people happily using Macs kicked off this week. . .
. . . RAISING AN ALARM. Naturally, this campaign -- especially the virus-themed spot -- served as the starting gun for another round of the endless debates in computer-security circles over how secure the Mac actually is. So far, it has been pretty smooth sailing with a few minor hiccups that caused little or no damage. . .
. . . POSSIBLE OVERREACTION? Only a month before that, the press got all wide-eyed over the tale of two "viruses" circulating the Internet that targeted the Mac (see BW Online, 2/23/06, "Apple vs. the Hackers, Round 1"). They weren't viruses at all, but rather Trojan horse programs that did nothing more than replicate themselves, and didn't even do that well. At the time security investigators at Symantec (SYMC) said they had documented only a handful of users actually receiving the Trojan.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
The story coincided with the disclosure that six newly discovered so-called zero-day bugs targeting Mac OS X were found by Tom Ferris, a security researcher who publishes a blog concerning vulnerabilities he has found. Zero-days are exploits or vulnerabilities that cause damage in the wild before being disclosed to the vendors of the targeted software. While they were directed at the Mac operating system, there's no evidence these vulnerabilities have actually done any damage.
Mr. Hesseldahl and his article presents the FACTS... and not the FUD spin.
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I like the comment you put on the end too :-)
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