http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=36 How to get off, where to get off, and why you should stay off Microsoft, with news and tips on alternatives Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=36#comment-50685 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:36:43 +0000 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=36#comment-50685 [...] As I wrote before, malware targeting the Mac, if and when it happens, would be big news. Sure enough, the press gave the “first Trojan in the wild to target Apple Computer’s Mac OS X” wide coverage, even though it turns out the Mac exploit is a low-level threat. You would have to be brain-dead enough to type in your adminstrator’s password after receiving something claiming to be pictures of “Mac OS X Leopard” (the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5, also known as Leopard). The malware, dubbed OSX/Oompa-A and the Ooompa Loompa Trojan Horse by other security experts, appears to have spread minimally so far and has achieved low-level threat classifications from McAfee and Symantec. In fact, the news reports have also made it clear that this exploit is not even news: “It’s not really news as far as threats go,” said Ray Wagner, a senior vice president in Gartner’s information security group. “It is news because it targets OS X, and as far as I know, it’s certainly the first OS X malicious content in the wild that’s been noted at this point.” [...] […] As I wrote before, malware targeting the Mac, if and when it happens, would be big news. Sure enough, the press gave the “first Trojan in the wild to target Apple Computer’s Mac OS X” wide coverage, even though it turns out the Mac exploit is a low-level threat. You would have to be brain-dead enough to type in your adminstrator’s password after receiving something claiming to be pictures of “Mac OS X Leopard” (the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5, also known as Leopard). The malware, dubbed OSX/Oompa-A and the Ooompa Loompa Trojan Horse by other security experts, appears to have spread minimally so far and has achieved low-level threat classifications from McAfee and Symantec. In fact, the news reports have also made it clear that this exploit is not even news: “It’s not really news as far as threats go,” said Ray Wagner, a senior vice president in Gartner’s information security group. “It is news because it targets OS X, and as far as I know, it’s certainly the first OS X malicious content in the wild that’s been noted at this point.” […]

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