Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Aug 2009 21:56 UTC
With Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system arriving on people's doorsteps over the coming weekend, you'd think that all the new features are known by now, and there will be no more major surprises. Well, that's not entirely true: on Intego's Mac Security Blog, it is reported that Snow Leopard comes with anti-virus/malware functionality built-in. Update: Snow Leopard testers on MacRumors confirmed the functionality. How, exactly, it works, is not yet known, however.
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RE: Wow - it grows more exciting by the day.
by MobyTurbo on Tue 25th Aug 2009 22:48
in reply to "Wow - it grows more exciting by the day."
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There are some other security features Apple hardly talks about. At WWDC they announced Safari for Snow Leopard will have sandboxing of plug-ins, like Chrome. Also, a number of exploit prevention measures have been implemented, such as improved ASLR, "stack-smashing" type preventions for areas of memory besides the stack, and so on. Of course, most of these are available to people running Chrome and Vista already, but they should make hackathons much less embarrassing for Apple in the future.
Edited 2009-08-25 22:49 UTC
RE[2]: Wow - it grows more exciting by the day.
by kaiwai on Thu 27th Aug 2009 07:28
in reply to "RE: Wow - it grows more exciting by the day."
Member since:2005-07-06
There are some other security features Apple hardly talks about. At WWDC they announced Safari for Snow Leopard will have sandboxing of plug-ins, like Chrome. Also, a number of exploit prevention measures have been implemented, such as improved ASLR, "stack-smashing" type preventions for areas of memory besides the stack, and so on. Of course, most of these are available to people running Chrome and Vista already, but they should make hackathons much less embarrassing for Apple in the future.
I guess their decision is to keep those sorts of details far from the end user and just tell them, "improved security". If you've seen an ordinary person roll their eyes when they start hearing technical details you can understand why Apple doesn't make the specifics of their security features on their marketing blurb.
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My family copy is estimated to ship on the 2nd. I can't help but wonder what it will be like. I had hoped to hear more about wonderful (or at least very consistent) performance because of all the work done with what sounds like pervasive threading, etc. But who knows what else might be in there (but how did this remain a "secret?")