Mac OSX Snow Leopard ships with Antivirus

[ManaByte]

bububu the Mac ads tell me that Macs don't get viruses! Is Apple...LYING? 



http://blog.intego.com/2009/08/25/snow-leopard-contains-an-antivirus/

We’ve gotten reports about an interesting feature in Snow Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X due for release this Friday. According to reports we’ve seen – and the screen shot below – Snow Leopard contains an antimalware feature.

We’re not sure yet exactly how this works, but the above screen shot shows this feature working with a download made via Safari, detecting a version of the RSPlug Trojan horse in a downloaded disk image.

We’re naturally curious about this feature, and about how thorough it is. As soon as we can find out more, we’ll post an article here. We wonder just how serious Apple thinks the malware threat is, especially since their latest Get a Mac ads highlight the fact that PCs running Windows suffer from viruses…

[Bildi]

Seems a bit redundant, but not a bad thing to have I guess.

[ManaByte]

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[ManaByte]

is this a big deal?

Seeing as how Apple is plastering that new ad all over TV bashing PCs for having viruses and Macs not, it kinda is.

[recursivelyenumerable]

So is this leaning on a stereotype that says guys like this are usually crawling with STDs, like Kosma?

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is this a big deal?

Seeing as how Apple is plastering that new ad all over TV bashing PCs for having viruses and Macs not, it kinda is.

Ads mislead?!

Macs get much less viruses then PCs, since fewer people bother programming viruses for Macs. That doesn't mean that they don't exist, however.

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Anyway, it's good to see a sign that Apple are being proactive about this.