welcome to the world

Post by **garyb** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:50 am

mac users....
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsartic ... xml&rpc=22

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:52 am

quote from the link

..."This first Macintosh OS X threat is an example of the continuing spread of malicious code on to other platforms," said Vincent Weafer, senior director at Symantec Security Response, in a statement.

antivirus companies are urgently waiting for the next killer thing, as sales are seriously decreasing - in particular Symantec

'cmon, it even asks your permission...

cheers, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:40 am

I hate it...

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:17 am

These kind of statment rises up agan and agan, the old suspicious idead that some companies may be creating their own viruses...

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:17 am

More good news for Apple: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 14/1734221

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:40 am

serves 'em right

Post by **garyb** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:59 am

the virus companies ADMIT that they create malicious code. it's "research" and they hire the best hackers to do it.

if i remember correctly, symantec has a sort of virus museum or library were they catalog all the bad code for the public, and that code includes the original viruses made(for fun), which happen to be made by the company's founders....or something like that. certainly someone here remembers the proper story....

business is good...

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:31 pm

: That's pretty impressive Gary! What a stupid world we live in sometimes...