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Mac malware
1/1: With Macs being actively targeted by malware, how will you protect your Mac?
Other polls | 1,668 votes | 13 comments
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Just as with Android, I don't load antivirus/antimalware software unless it can actually do something useful for me.
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The big downside of anti virus software is that it's often slow and bloated. I'll just have to be extra careful :-(
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Updated the OS and checked my computers for the trojan. Apple was too slow plugging the hole obviously, but other than that this was nothing surprising. There will be security holes–they will be plugged in when found–you will have to stay up to date. It doesn't mean virus scanning is more or less unnecessary than it was before.
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I ran Windows XP for years without antivirus, both pre- & post-SP2. My yearly paranoia scans showed no infections whatsoever. When I finally switched to a Mac, my XP system was still running as snappily as the day I installed it, unlike any system I've ever seen with antivirus rubbish all through it.
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I *MIGHT*, one of these days (or rather - years,) install anti-viral software. That is if threats warrant installing one. I have yet to see any real threat that affects me.
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This has prompted me to check that I had disabled Java on all of my browsers, which I should have done long ago, but that's about it. I'm going to do an extra check for this specific malware at work, but otherwise no change there, either.
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I had made the decision to disable Java already about two years ago but I was not diligent enough to disable it always directly after having it enabled for a particular website. I intend to be much better with this. Together with Click-to-Flash, that drastically reduces vulnerability to security breaches of these two plugins.
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Had to fix more problems with Anti-Virus software (and more serious problems) than from the Trojans on people's Macs.
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Anti-malware software does not work and it hasn't worked for a long time. Out of the 25 or so Mac Anti-Virus applications, I doubt that many actually detected and stopped any of the Flashback variants! Even in big enterprise environments, it is our advanced network packet analysis and threat protection that alerts us to infections. We haven't seen the enterprise AV software stop much except really old malware.
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Install Apple's Java Update 3, which contains a remover tool. See :http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5242 for details.
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As I understand it, many threats simply delete themselves to avoid detection if they find any software that would allow this such as Little Snitch and even Apple's Developer tools.
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I'd like to see a poll on who actually got infected by this malware.
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One of the keys to defeating this was to keep your Mac updated. Working in a MacWarranty Repair Store, we've seen that those who fell victim to this malware, were those who did not keep their Mac's updated. My advise is to keep your OS updated. It's not a perfect world, but currently updates solve far more problems then they create. ---
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