Incoming

21 February 2006

I’m worried.

Not very worried, but still…

In the last week or so there’s been a minor outbreak of mac trojans – not viruses, as first reported, as they don’t replicate and spread themselves. In fact, these 2 known trojans (I think it’s 2 – it’s very hard to find any reliable sources on the matter) don’t seem to do anything bad at all – again they are all hype, and no real substance.

The concept, though, is fine and while these ones don’t do anything, it’s only a matter of time until there are ones that do. As far as I can tell, their currently isn’t any mac anti-virus software I’d consider running on any of my macs, and I still don’t really believe that anti-virus software would help too much (by the time the av makers have got a patch out, it’s probably too late).

I’m sure we won’t have as many problems in the long run as our windows friends, but I much prefer having none at all.

Oh well.

From: Articles

21 February 2006