Apple acknowledges Mac Defender malware, promises update

Re:Apple acknowledges Mac Defender malware, promises update by demetris on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @01:53AM (#2583064)

“Malware is so rare on the Mac that Apple set up an entire web page to deal with the one trojan currently known to be impacting Mac users.”

I read that and I thought Apple had set up a top-level page. I then saw it is an article in Apple’s knowledge base.

As far as I know, this is the same thing Microsoft does for distinguished malware: articles in the knowlegde base. E.g., here is an old one for Blaster:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826955

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Re:Apple acknowledges Mac Defender malware, promises update by tptacek on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @11:33AM (#2584314)

Blaster wasn't a trojan; it was a worm that actively compromised Windows machines, took out entire huge enterprises (including major military networks), hit the front page of CNN, and (IIRC) prompted a Congressional inquiry about regulating software security.

Not exactly apples/apples.

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