Microsoft Detects New Malware Attacking Mac OS X

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[citation][nom]stingstang[/nom]I think the best part is that Apple went through so many OS's until they hit one a bunch of people liked, X, and now they just change the subscript of it instead of releasing XI.[/citation]
Well, before OS X it was definitely the dark times. OS IX was okay for it's time but it is not missed.
 
[citation][nom]frozonic[/nom]people saying Mac sucks have never used one, mac is great, waaaaaay better than windows. its practically crash-less ....sure.... you cant play games on macs and macs are overpriced (exept if you unoficially install it on your intel based pc) but for people that work in professional things and desings and etc, Mac is a better choice[/citation]
Now it seems like you're just trolling. I have two pretty decent Macs and they are not waaaaay better. They run a different OS. ...and they are not economical, you're right. It's just different, not better, just different. Kinda like how Chevy is different than Honda.
 
I bet 99% of the people affected by this have a pirated version of Office (which doesn't get updates), because they stupidly think they need MS Office when all they actually need is OpenOffice.

[citation][nom]stingstang[/nom]I think the best part is that Apple went through so many OS's until they hit one a bunch of people liked, X, and now they just change the subscript of it instead of releasing XI.[/citation]
I think the idea is that "X" doesn't just mean "ten" but also "X" as in uniX.
 
[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]I bet 99% of the people affected by this have a pirated version of Office (which doesn't get updates), because they stupidly think they need MS Office when all they actually need is OpenOffice.I think the idea is that "X" doesn't just mean "ten" but also "X" as in uniX.[/citation]

Yes, but iSheep refuse to acknowledge the unix is the core of OS X. Remember, they created everything
 
[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]The software at risk is irrelevant. I understand the irony that it's a Microsoft product, but it could have been a third party software, game, or even iTunes, and the result would be the same. The fact that the OS allows a flawed sofware to exploit it is proof that the OS itself is flawed. A system is as secure as it's weakest link.[/citation]

And your argument is proof that your argument is flawed. If you understood this attack you would know that is how buffer overflows work and that it has been around for a very very long time. I used to use this attack on IIS servers all the time when I did penetration testing. Does that mean that Windows Server 2003 was flawed...no just meant that ISS was vulnerable to that attack and therefor compromised the OS and the data stored on it. reboot the box, boot to safemode, Patch it reboot again and and move on. This was probably a Heap based overflow attack due to the type of application it was against.

The only way to make a system hack proof is the turn it off and deny physical access to the box. People need to understand that security is about making something difficult enough to make the attacker move on. This attack is very basic stuff and is available to numerous OS's depending on the application. You can take an application with 5 lines of code in it and find a vulnerability. Imagine millions of lines code. I am surprised this did not come out sooner.
 
It is silly to think that just Mac user don't update their software. Too many times have I had customers disable windows updates cause they think that they always break their PCs. Like other people have said before me, it's not a matter of Mac vs PC, it's a matter of dealing with stupid end users. Let's be honest, there is plenty of those in both camps.
 
Let the iJail and its hoodwinked zombies go under. Maybe the the march of technology can be saved. Cause now the vital signs are no good.
 
Let iJail and its hoodwinked zombies go under. Maybe the march of technology can be saved. Cause now the vital signs are no good.
 
"Command and Control"?? How do they know this is malware? Sounds like it could just be another "business as usual" feature from one of the OS vendors such as Apple and Microsoft? :)
 
[citation][nom]silver565[/nom]Yes, but iSheep refuse to acknowledge the unix is the core of OS X. Remember, they created everything[/citation]

That's because the core of OS X is NOT(!) Unix. The kernel is even called "XNU" meaning "X is not Unix".

OS X behaves like unix (hence the unix certification), but it doesn't use any unix code.
 
[citation][nom]john_4[/nom]probably written by MS. Would not put it past the convicted monopolist MS. I will use OS X any day over the NSA/FED co-authored Windows platform.[/citation]

Reading comprehension never was the high point for many of the comments in Tom's articles and you and the others bashing M$ for this are sterling examples of this problem. M$ put a patch out for the vulnerability back in 2009. Some Mac owners just didn't update. I'm pretty sure that the updates are supposed to be automatic, so they might have had to disable the updates themselves for it to not be updated. Regardless, it's not M$'s fault.
 
Office on Mac doesn't make updates easy to access or run. Office does not run updates automatically by default and the updater is not easy to find. It's not intuitive at all (like most of the organization of the Office suite for Mac) and hidden in the Help Menu, where users probably won't think to look for it. The actual "Microsoft AutoUpdater" application is hidden in a nest of folders within the system Library folder...where users will probably never find it.
 
Ok...almost everyone here is some sort of poser thinking they know anything about tech. If you guys were real techs, you'd know and have some curiosity of ANYTHING tech related, Windows/Linux/Apple/etc.
It's obvious none of you know anything other than Windows...nothing here even hints at the slightest Mac or OS X knowledge. I bet the only "Mac" experience any of you had is when some Apple Fanboy made fun of you at Starbucks. All you guys do is QQ anytime anything Apple related is barely mentioned because you want to look cool in front of your Winblows nerd club. ALL of you almost as bad as Apple fanboys....actually no, you and Apple fanboys are EXACTLY the same. You just think you're different cause you use something that doesn't have a fruit glued to it.

Jesus you guys are lame...
 
[citation][nom]phych[/nom]Office on Mac doesn't make updates easy to access or run. Office does not run updates automatically by default and the updater is not easy to find. It's not intuitive at all (like most of the organization of the Office suite for Mac) and hidden in the Help Menu, where users probably won't think to look for it. The actual "Microsoft AutoUpdater" application is hidden in a nest of folders within the system Library folder...where users will probably never find it.[/citation]

Phych is absolutely correct. The way they setup the updates is via a separate application is it is not easy to find.

 
[citation][nom]THFullOfPosers[/nom]Ok...almost everyone here is some sort of poser thinking they know anything about tech. If you guys were real techs, you'd know and have some curiosity of ANYTHING tech related, Windows/Linux/Apple/etc.It's obvious none of you know anything other than Windows...nothing here even hints at the slightest Mac or OS X knowledge. I bet the only "Mac" experience any of you had is when some Apple Fanboy made fun of you at Starbucks. All you guys do is QQ anytime anything Apple related is barely mentioned because you want to look cool in front of your Winblows nerd club. ALL of you almost as bad as Apple fanboys....actually no, you and Apple fanboys are EXACTLY the same. You just think you're different cause you use something that doesn't have a fruit glued to it.Jesus you guys are lame...[/citation]

Even the worst of the Apple bashers aren't as bad as the Apple fanboys. Also, not everyone here is bashing Apple for the sake of bashing Apple and some of us actually weigh the advantages of both sides. M$ just happens to have a more secure platform for the average user, and that is something that has been denied by Apple and it's fanboys for years. Now that it's surfacing with full force, the Windows guys are basically in an overdrive I TOLD YOU SO mood, and some of the idiot bashers are just using this as more ammunition for their hatred (the former is excusable, the latter, not so much).

To go out and say that no one here knows anything is a ridiculous claim and just looking through the comments, some of them are obviously intelligent comments by people who are at least somewhat knowledgeable on the subject.

[citation][nom]phych[/nom]Office on Mac doesn't make updates easy to access or run. Office does not run updates automatically by default and the updater is not easy to find. It's not intuitive at all (like most of the organization of the Office suite for Mac) and hidden in the Help Menu, where users probably won't think to look for it. The actual "Microsoft AutoUpdater" application is hidden in a nest of folders within the system Library folder...where users will probably never find it.[/citation]

[citation][nom]ap3x[/nom]Phych is absolutely correct. The way they setup the updates is via a separate application is it is not easy to find.[/citation]

Now this is something that I did not know. The only Mac that I've worked with recently isn't mine and it's running Office 2011, so I didn't need to worry about this nor much of anything related to it.
 
[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]That's because the core of OS X is NOT(!) Unix. The kernel is even called "XNU" meaning "X is not Unix".OS X behaves like unix (hence the unix certification), but it doesn't use any unix code.[/citation]
Wasn't the Mach Kernel made to be used in the BSD UNIX?
 
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