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| Author: | big_D [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | 43c per seat for Mac malware |
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4451&tag=nl.e539 The Russian network is offering 43c per infected machine delivered into their network. |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:01 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: 43c per seat for Mac malware | |||||||||
the greater OS X market share and success the greater the chance of scum bags having a go at infecting it … |
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| Author: | gavomatic57 [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:35 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: 43c per seat for Mac malware | ||||||||||||||||||
...and the slower Apple are at patching well publicised bugs, the easier it will be. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 43c per seat for Mac malware |
Viruses can do very limited damage on a Mac without Admin privileges anyway. Personally I'd be more worried about browser bugs/phishing scams. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:34 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: 43c per seat for Mac malware | |||||||||
The problem is, a lot of the things which are getting (slowly) patched at the moment are ways to escalate privileges. Once the malware is on the machine, if it can exploit an unpatched bug which escalates privileges, it has access to the whole machine. Without using such a bug, it can do less damage. That said, the "code installer" is trying to install codecs into the system, this requires an administrator password, so people aren't adverse to entering the password, because they know they are installing new codecs, to allow them to watch some piece of dodgy video... 
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