Snow Leopard Ships With Vulnerable Flash Player

Apple’s new operating system comes with an outdated version of Flash Player that exposes Mac users to hacker attacks. The initial release of Mac OS X 1..6 Snow Leopard includes Flash Player 10.0.23.1, which is very much out of date. The fully patched version of Flash Player for Mac is version...

Snow Leopard AV Only Scans For Two Trojans

The built-in malware protection in Apple’s Snow Leopard upgrade appears to be nothing more than a XProtect.plist file containing five signatures for two of the most popular Mac OS X trojans — OSX.RSPlug and OSX.Iservice. Read the full story zdnet.com...

Snow Leopard Gets an Anti-Virus Scanner

Apple’s commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free but the company isn’t taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh. Apple has quietly added a new Snow Leopard feature to scan software downloads for malware, a no-brainer move that coincides with a noticeable spike in...

Snow Leopard Gets an Anti-Virus Scanner

Apple’s commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free but the company isn’t taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh. Apple has quietly added a new Snow Leopard feature to scan software downloads for malware, a no-brainer move that coincides with a noticeable spike in...

Snow Leopard security is all relative

Little, if anything, gets Mac users more exercised than a mention of their favorite machine’s security problems. Despite the fact that security experts believe Macs to be much easier to exploit than Windows machines, Mac users simply trot out the old saw about there not being any virus attacks on...