[X4U] New Trojan threatens Macs with installer...

[Randy B. Singer]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:

> And it's told by the same company who told such a story before:  
> Intego.

I don't think that Intego has ever been dishonest, or told any  
"stories."

I think that they discovered a Trojan, sounded the alarm, and then  
looked bad when it turned out to have virtually no distribution. Then  
the Macintosh press over-reacted and excoriated them.

(This is the same Macintosh press, by the way, for instance TidBits,  
that now employs a "security expert" who is going around telling Mac  
users that the Macintosh is a spreader of viruses to Windows  
computers and that we all need to run out and purchase AV software.   
So I don't put much stock in their credibility when it comes to their  
criticism of Intego over that incident.)

Personally I want my AV software company to jump when they see a new  
potential threat, push out an AV definition for it, and ask questions  
later.  If they are wrong about the level of threat, I can live with  
that much better than I can live with being unprotected in the early  
stages of a new outbreak.

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Randy B. Singer
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Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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