Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus 335
File this firmly in the "rumor" category for now. the JoshMeister writes (in the third person) "Mac antivirus company Intego broke the story this morning that Apple is apparently including antivirus functionality in its upcoming operating system, Snow Leopard. But which antivirus engine is Apple using? Security researcher Joshua Long discusses the likely candidates."
Virus on MAC ? (Score:4, Funny)
Snowing ? (Score:5, Funny)
Can we get a weather report from Hell ?
Scanning (Score:5, Funny)
At its core a virus scanner is just a wrapper around a multipattern byte matcher, so maybe it's better to ask whether they're using Aho-Corasick or Wu-Manber...
Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Linux Foundation announces partnership with McAfee (Score:2, Funny)
San Francisco, AP
In response to a sharp rise in popularity in 2014 (the year of the Linux desktop,) the Linux Foundation has announced that antivirus technology from McAffee will be built into all versions of the Linux kernel starting with v 2.6.45. When asked about this latest development, Linus Torvalds said, "I believe that adding 2,476,000 lines of antivirus code in order to protect Linux users is the most effective solution and can only benefit Linux users for years to come."
That'll be the day that hell freezes over.
Re:Virus on MAC ? (Score:2, Funny)
A few highlights from TFA:
Re:Nonsense (Score:2, Funny)
Re:AV for consumers will be free (Score:4, Funny)
The most effective thing they give users to protect from malware is a hammer to hit the person in the head each time they install or click on something they don't trust.
Re:Linux Foundation announces partnership with McA (Score:5, Funny)
The Linux foundation regrets distributing Mcaffee which is a rootkit whose name looks a lot like McAfee.
McAfee (Score:5, Funny)
Let them run McAfee. Those Macs run too fast as it is, and that should make those shooter games playable by us mere humans.
Our terrible terrible secret... (Score:5, Funny)
It's time we came clean. Macs do get viruses. Actually they get a lot of viruses. Really the OS is basically viruses and itunes. We pretend like we can work on these systems but it's just a screen full of viruses all having sex with eachother. The reason you never heard about it because back in ought 3' we took an oath to never reveal that terrible terrible truth. We relied on Windows users hatred of Macs preventing them from finding out. But, now that it's out in the open I suppose we ought to move forward and try to rebuild, maybe accept the situation and try to secure our OS.
So uhh.. Windows users... How do you make a *shudder* bug fix?
Re:Virus on MAC ? (Score:4, Funny)
I thought that Trojans were made to prevent the replication of those huge two-legged viruses.
Re:Virus on MAC ? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Snowing ? (Score:5, Funny)
It's currently "SCO is not dead yet", with a 25% chance of "Microsoft acts with integrity".
Re:Virus on MAC ? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought that Trojans were made to prevent the replication of those huge two-legged viruses.
No, that is condoms made by a company called Trojan. The virus trojans are based off of the wooden horse left outside Troy by the Greeks. It looked legitimate, but it was a trap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing) [wikipedia.org]
Re:Virus on MAC ? (Score:3, Funny)
Location of the definitions (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Virus on MAC ? (Score:4, Funny)
Snow leopard? More like slow leopard!
(I had to do it... there was no other way)
Re:Virus on MAC ? (Score:5, Funny)
indeed (Score:0, Funny)
Slashdot users and Windows users both must have a lot of spare time to waste on garbage.