RE: mac trojan in-the-wild

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> > > I had evaluated av solutions for a university and found out that 
> > > McAfee Virex did not detect windows viruses.
> >
> > :) That's right, or was when I last administered AV for Macs.
> <survey of mine was in 2005>

That's more recent than my admin days. I went management in 2001, but I'm
over it now.

> Well its a hard sell: scanning a mac for the hundreds of 
> known malware vs. scanning a mac for 100's of knowns that can 
> affect the OS, plus the 66k that can't.

One might be enough, in the "right" circumstances.  :)

--
David Harley
AVIEN Interim Administrator: http://www.avien.org 
http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk  



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