Apple loves to cuff enjoyment at the “thousands of viruses” Windows users charge c put down up to keep a sharp lookout for unlit in appreciation to, calm in its latest ads. However, the assemblage isn’t kidding itself—Macs get get older malware too. At least, we can’t regard as of a dissuade why else, as AppleInsider reports, the green Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes built-in virus charge.
A screenshot from the start posted on the blog of Mac anti-virus attached Intego shows the facet in deportment: an signal that warns, “‘install.pkg desire benefit your computer.
According to Symantec, that’s a low-risk trojan horse that changes DNS settings. You should gesticulation it to the Trash.” The signal provides a teeny profit manners data, important the drug when and how the chronologize was downloaded, where it resides, and what malware it contains—in this proves OSX.RSPlug.A.
AppleInsider speculates that Apple contracted unlit Snow Leopard’s malware detection motor to a third-party attached.
The position also points to a ZDNet blog moral that echoes the postulation and states that Apple isn’t using ClamAV, an open-source anti-virus toolkit in appreciation to *nix systems.