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

[Randy B. Singer]

On Nov 23, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> I always scratch my head at Mac users' belief that announcing  
> malware is bad, whereas in the Windows world, it's common (more  
> common than Windows users would like).

Lots of folks like to see things only in black and white.  Thus  
Microsoft is bad, and so are all of their products.  AV software  
companies are bad.  Etc.

Finding a Trojan Horse, even one that is only a concept, or one that  
turns out to have no significant distribution, and the inclusion of a  
definition in a company's AV software to defeat this malware is cause  
for a press release by an AV software company.  Even a proof of  
concept can be used as a template to create a serious threat.  A  
Trojan with no significant distribution can be released by its  
creator at a later date.

An AV software company makes their money by selling AV software.   
They can't keep  mum about what they are doing with their product.   
Users of their product expect them to be on top of everything that is  
going on with regard to malware.  Press releases are how AV software  
companies make that known.

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

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