Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Nov 2006 12:22 UTC, submitted by Governa
"OS.X Macarena poses no viable threat as currently conceived. Although we don't have our hands on the virus source code, according to Symantec (who initially publicized the virus last week) OSX.Macarena can infect neither PowerPC-exclusive binaries, nor Universal binaries. It can only affect binaries that are Intel-specific. That would include various system files, but since OSX.Macarena can only infect files in its own directory and has no means of gaining the privileges necessary to escalate into directories where most system files are stored, the the threat level is mitigated."
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2006-02-01
Of course it poses no threat, the fact that Symantec even tried to escalate something that it's not, has just made myself and many others loose even more trust for them.
Symantec's ONLY thoughts behind any of this is to make money.
They complained about Vistas new lock down system with the Kernel and forced them to open it up, because they still want to make it look like their products are the best.
When in fact it would of been better for Vista to keep it locked out, and as much as I don't like Microsoft's ways of doing things, it was the first time I had respect for them for taking a stand.
I would take anything Symantec say with a grain of salt these days, their software has become so bloated, escalating things that obviously aren't a threat.