Today you'll find a lot of different problems, not only viruses. What would you say, if I'm able to connect to your Mac OS X PC or Server via a WLAN adapter and able to gain complete control over your Mac? This is the first step for so called "root kits" to allow attackers to smuggle in malicious code in your PC. This problems are not called "viruses", but "security vulnerabilities" and they are much more interesting instead of developing a boring virus. If I'm a hacker and your PC isn't patched, then I have no problems to delete all your files or do other terrible things on your computer.
But wait, this isn't possible with Mac OS X!
Er... really?
No, not really. You're wrong, if you think, there are no security problems with Mac OS X. In reality, there were really strong problems, but a lot of users don't know the details...
- Several vulnerabilities in Mac OS X
- Security updates from Apple
Several of the flaws addressed by the Security Update 2006-007 are critical and allow attackers to smuggle in malicious code.- List of all known Apple security updates (not Security vulnerabilitis, only the Updates from Apple since Mac OS X)
"Although, in the past, Apple users haven't had to be as careful, they should now take the same precautions as Windows users when downloading executable files from peer-to-peer sites, or questionable websites." (source: heise security)
Regards,
Remi
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