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Researchers and engineers who are working in the security field must have strong constitutions—especially when it comes to weathering negative backlash and tired conspiracy theories whenever apple security and Mac OS X are mentioned in the same breath.
The term “virus” is used so often as a generic reference to any malicious code that here at Symantec we tend to use more appropriate blanket terms like "security threat" and “malicious code.” Just how bad is the misuse of the term virus?
Apple security exploits cropped up and have received a lot of attention.
The first vulnerability involved the Leap. Like so many other worms, Leap.
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Like so many other worms, Leap.A relied on tricking users into downloading and opening a suspicious file. If you ignore file attachments that you don't expect or that look suspicious, you'll protect yourself from the vast majority of Internet crud, especially the kind that arrives via e-mail. The worm, known as Inqtana.A, exploited a hole in the Bluetooth software in OS X 10.4 that had been patched last year. Inqtana. Keep your operating system up-to-date and don't accept unknown files, whether they come to you in e-mail, iChat, or beamed from someone's Bluetooth phone.
The next one is a vulnerability in Apple's browser Safari, had the most potential for damage. By default, Safari is set to automatically open "safe" file types, such as movies and music, after they've been downloaded. Before Apple closed this hole, malicious scripts could be disguised as an innocuous file type and set to automatically run upon download. Unchecking the "Open 'safe' files after downloading" box in Safari's General Preferences pane also closes the security hole. Browsers other than Safari were not affected.
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