The latest version of the operating system Mac OS X Snow Leopard according to representatives of Apple is equipped with advanced protection. There are a number of security experts consider the emergence of new tools not sufficient. Andrew Storms (Andrew Storms), security director at nCircle Network Security, states that innovation - just turn a blind designed to bring to the new OC attention of more corporate customers.
We are talking about support for "Snow Leopard" 64-bit applications and the availability of the corresponding nucleus, which provides greater protection for the operating system.
But this is not enough. New feature Barca File Quarantine, albeit with enhanced functionality, but still guarantees only basic protection against some malware. This is indicated by the representatives of the manufacturer Symantec antivirus program, adding that unlike Norton Internet Security for the Mac, the protection of Snow Leopard will not prevent unauthorized access to confidential data. Among other shortcomings Saymantek say no ability to remove malware from the system, the principle of work on signatures and lack of user interface - you can not know what a signature is already downloaded.
A researcher from the firm Sophos, another antivirus software manufacturer - Bakkas Paul (Paul O Baccas) states in his blog that the malware protection in the operating system Snow Leopard is blocking access to computers Virus program through Entourage, Safari, Mail, Firefox, Thunderbird, and others who use LSQuarantine. Others are programs that do not work with LSQuarantine, like Skype, Adium, BitTorrent and the Finder from Apple, as well as flash drives, are not protected against malware. That is, as concluded Bakkas, Apple employees have implemented only protection that works with certain files and programs, and only under certain conditions.
We can only repeat: see the virus, which is not necessary to independently set, enter a password, think about Norton. Buy protection against threats that do not exist (even if till), - a dubious pleasure ...