Demo of Snow Leopard stopping Mac malware

How good is the anti-virus in Snow Leopard, the new Apple operating system? See how Mac OS X Snow Leopard can stop malware - and how it compares to anti-virus software.

More info http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2009/08/28/snow-leopard-malware-protection/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Snow Leopard
• Mac OS X
• Mac
• Apple
• Sophos
• SophosLabs
• virus
• antivirus

[BandGeek6241]

This is really interesting. Notice the pattern here; more people are switching to Mac everyday and they're starting to come out with more malware for them.

[ImacHack3r]

maybe you shouldnt look at porn

[Anzac97]

@campaingboy73 actually linux and mac run off the same system called unix so lunix viruses will work on mac vice versa

[Anzac97]

@williamstoo actually linux and mac run off the same system called unix so lunix viruses will work on mac vice versa

[Z0MBI3K1LL45]

@bradnightmare your computer would get destroyed

[genericlinuxuser]

@campaingboy73 I'm.. actually pretty sure that it isn't that high.. Not at the moment, at least. Maybe, MAYBE if you count from 1991 to now. But since then, Linux got patched up well. Any time a security hole is found, it gets reported and patched quickly. Just like Mac OS X. Only Linux has a larger community so bugs get found fast and patches get released fast.

[campaingboy73]

@genericlinuxuser not to start a fight or anything but i saw on the web that linux had about 800 something viruses and malware.

[genericlinuxuser]

@campaingboy73 Uh, hate to break it to you, but Linux does not have 1000 or even 100 viruses. While I wouldn't say Mac or Linux is better, neither of them have anywhere near as many viruses as Windows does.

[campaingboy73]

@cessusbangy linux has almost 1000 viruses, smart one! mac is bettter!

[campaingboy73]

@BandGeek6241 duh because bad guys can get more people on a mac now than last year. or the year earlier.

[SouthsideDirtySouth]

@djmvlog1 I see, thank you!