[CS-FSLUG] Apple's Big Virus

[David Aikema]

On 4/29/05, "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" <survivor at brisnet.org> wrote:
> Viruses don't have to be a fact of life. There are no viruses on OS X --
> not a single one. The reason most often touted is Apple's lack of
> critical mass, but that argument has been beaten to death. There are
> millions of OS X computers out there. It's not that a virus couldn't be
> written for it either. Far from it. The soft underbelly of Unix (or
> Darwin, an open-source Unix like OS similar to FreeBSD) is just as
> vulnerable as the eye-candy applications that run on top of it. Step
> back from Apple's three-tiered user privilege system (user, GUI
> superuser, and root, which is disabled by default) and understand that
> users can still be tricked into clicking on anything -- social
> engineering will always work, and there will always be people who click.

I think that it's a bit of a tough claim to make that there are no
viruses for Mac OS X.  As a Mac user, I've seen a reasonable number of
security updates to be installed.

David