subject: Apple quietly updated the malware protection for Mac OS X [print this page] Apple quietly updated the malware protection for Mac OS X During the broadcast version of Mac OS X 10.6.4, Apple updated XProtect.plist, a database of signatures used to detect malware. Sophos claims that Apple's silence security issues is a false sense of security among users.
Security is not a subject on which Apple likes to lie down, except perhaps for the promotion of its operating system Mac OS.
The publisher even though this certain threats, which to date remain scarce on the platform. With Snow Leopard, the latest major release of Mac OS X, Apple has integrated a security tool.
Mac OS X now protected against the Trojan HellRTS
Basic, this protection works thanks to a signature database of threats. On its website, Apple says that the OS includes defenses built designed to protect users against viruses and malware - without harassing messages and safety alerts.
On the occasion of updating its operating system (version 10.6.4), Apple released a fix for a security filter. The security bulletin there are no reference, however, a sign perhaps that the topic remains a subject on which the mark do not speak.
However, according to Sophos, Apple has updated XProtect.plist "Rudimentary file" containing basic signatures of a number of threats for the Mac, so as to detect malicious code HellRTS.
Sophos, Apple does not make services to users by hiding safety
The publisher of Security said that the Trojan appeared in April allows including sending spam, access files on the compromised machine and take screenshots for monitoring user activity.
Sophos criticism Apple with this update stealth want to ignore the existence of security risks on Mac and therefore does not educate its users. Forewarned is forearmed?
For lack of information, Mac users are at risk according to the reasoning by Sophos, which is not the first to criticize Apple for Marketing reasons, to obscure the issue.
Naturally, Sophos antivirus vendor, is not neutral, its objective being to sell solutions. If malicious code on Mac OS do exist, they remain small. The purchase of software (imperfect) is therefore perhaps not even necessary, especially as applications are free.
However, to overlook the risks, it is not a good strategy as such to give the user a false sense of security. In addition, if there are few malware on Mac, users are no less exposed to other threats, independent of the OS, such as phishing.
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Apple quietly updated the malware protection for Mac OS X
