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First ever virus for Mac OS X discovered

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Calum:
apple's updates tend to (from what i have heard) be the size of microsoft's service packs (150MB for example) so some people aren't going to be applying that so quickly, are they?

worker201:
Sometimes they are pretty big.  But lets compare apples and Apples.

Apple - large update every 4 months or so, normally (until yesterday) for problems no users were even aware of

Microsoft - small updates every week or so, for problems that should have been patched months ago

I think Apple has done pretty well for itself.  And most Apple users that I know are pretty good about getting those updates when they come out.

davidnix71:
It's not a virus. It's malware that IM's you what appears to be a jpeg. If you attempt to open it, even logged in as admin, you will be prompted for a password because it is really a script. If you are not running as admin, then you will have to give it an admin name and password or your keychain password. If you are stupid enough to give an admin password to open what appears to be a picture, then it writes itself into iChat and tries to pass itself on to your IM buddies.

worker201:
How dumb.  A self-propagating worm.  Yawn.

WMD:

--- Quote from: Calum ---apple's updates tend to (from what i have heard) be the size of microsoft's service packs (150MB for example) so some people aren't going to be applying that so quickly, are they?
--- End quote ---

No, not at all.  The biggest plain security update I've ever seen was 20MB, and that thing fixed over a dozen vulnerabilities.  The biggest updates are things like 10.3.0 to 10.3.9, which is nearly 150MB.  But that's over a year's worth of stuff.

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