With Apple OS X, no worries: F-Secure
p2pnet news | security:- “There are no viruses really for OS X – there have been a few – but from that point of view the likelihood of you getting hit on an Apple is insignificant compared to PCs.”
This confident statement was made by Patrik Runald, a senior security specialist at Finland anti-virus company F-Secure.
“We have seen more vulnerabilities patched over the past 18 months in OS X than we have before, so it is not a foolproof operating system,” Runald told ZDNet Australia, “but he suggested that OS X users were also safer because of the lack of attention from criminals”.
“More bad guys are looking at Windows than they are at Apple,” he said.
But CA’s Eugene Dozortsev wasn’t quite so complacent.
The story goes on that in a video interview with ZDNet Australia, “Actually, the Mac is as vulnerable as everything else,” he said. “Don’t make any false assumptions that there are no viruses on Mac.
“A lot of things like trojans and e-mail worms [affect the Mac] the same as they would in the PC world.”
In the same video he was, however, partially contradicted by colleague Jakub Kaminski who’s quoted as saying, “There are a couple of specific [OS X threats]” but overall, “it is nothing”.
Is the iPhone likely to become a problem, wondered the story.
“We are getting our first iPhone in the lab this week and we will see what we can do with it,” says Runald, adding:
“There have been thoughts about Safari (the browser) and some ideas about what else could potentially be used but as of now we just don’t know”.
Also See:
ZDNet Australia – Mac OS X with 100 bugs still safer than Windows?, July 11, 2007
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