The lesson here is that if we look at Mac OS X and compare it to, say, Windows XP, we find that, in terms of the number of vulnerabilities, they are actually quite comparable.
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From a home-user point of view, I would not panic or worry. But it's a good opportunity to go back and look at your computer practices and see if there's something that can be changed to make the computer a little safer.Vincent Weafer
When malicious code could cause serious damage, Symantec and its peers often provide information to law-enforcement agencies such as the FBI, the U. S. Secret Service, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. If they need an analysis done on a new threat, we'll help them, ... We provide them with intelligence that we have, but we don't chase criminals.
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Mark Kennedy, a software architect, chimes in And our problem is that when you go that deep to try to extract it, you can render the machine unusable. Then you get blamed, rather than the bad guy. ... the bad actors are getting really bad.
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It has been a nonevent. We have been tracking our consumer tech support Less than a handful of people worldwide have called in saying they might be infected.
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What we are saying is that attackers are increasingly targeting your assets and your private information,
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