why u need AV

Apple will patch the vulnerability, no need for AV, besides this is pirated software that you give root access too on installation giving permission to infect your Mac.
 
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Its the start, to bury ur head in the sand and say apple will fly in and save the day is naive. And its hardly gonna help when the patch is released and the damage has already been done...It may not be this one that gets you, but its hitting close to home now.
 
Aqua_lung said:
Is there antivirus out there that tackles this trojan?
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Some Av's run first time apps/downloads in a "sandbox", where it monitors it and waits for changes/file access etc that it should not be doing, and stops it. Whilst they may not have a definition for this, it could certainly warn you that what you are doing may result in damage/malicious code being installed on your machine. This may not be fool proof, but its some form of prevention, any protection is better than none

Ur trying to avoid the fact that its coming....
 
tau1z said:
Some Av's run first time apps/downloads in a "sandbox", where it monitors it and waits for changes/file access etc that it should not be doing, and stops it. Whilst they may not have a definition for this, it could certainly warn you that what you are doing may result in damage/malicious code being installed on your machine. This may not be fool proof, but its some form of prevention, any protection is better than none

Ur trying to avoid the fact that its coming....
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Well ok I concede, Antivirus is needed.. for some who install things blindly.
 
tau1z said:
Its the start, to bury ur head in the sand and say apple will fly in and save the day is naive. And its hardly gonna help when the patch is released and the damage has already been done...It may not be this one that gets you, but its hitting close to home now.
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All the AV products but one protect against Win viruses under Mac. Those protections are in reality protections for Windows systems which may
connect to Macs or rather accept emails sent by Macs which may have
forwarded viruses (ie viruses not originating from Macs but from Win PCs
where the said attachments have been forwarded by the users).

It's always tricky to download a pirated program and then run it.
It could be a trojan. AV soft won't protect you against a proprietory
trojan program. Only if such a program was detected by someone else
and submitted to the AV company, then it's possible.

What Windows has which OSX does not is the way that the browser can run
code on a website which can run code on your machine. Likewise the Windoze auto-run feature can be hijacked where even if it's disabled a virus
on a USB stick can be run because Windoze default action can be modified,
ie double click on the USB drive icon and instead of seeing the
folder and file list you run the program in autorun.inf.

OSX does not have any of that BS and the only way to get malware
is to install it yourself - usually via a pirated software package.
 
The strange thing about this is that this trojan can only be removed by using the intego AV product and they were the only ones to spot it... mmm

/tinfoil hat
 
Sputnik said:
Shout it a bit louder, I still cannot hear you...
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You know I'm always happy to educate people. Seeing the word 'virii' gets my panties (haha) in a knot because there is no such word and to me it just comes across as the user wants to elevate himself above others in how smart he is to use such a sophisticated word (even though none exists). Not saying StbA is like that but often on the internet, people use such words in attempt to elevate themselves above the people they're arguing against. Many other people see this, copy it and believe incorrectly that such a word exists,
or Latin words can be turned plural by addition of "ii".

A big font is more memorable. Virus (singular), Viruses (plural). :)
 
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