Dancho Danchev manufactures his own target in his latest Mac OS X security post:
The much hyped built-in malware protection into 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.
Snow Leopard's malware protection only scans for two Trojans | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
“Much hyped,” indeed. So hyped, in fact, you can’t even see a mention of the feature on Apple’s web site. The only people generating any hype around Snow Leopard’s little anti-malware feature are other bloggers, but Danchev’s not taking any shots at them, he’s implying that Apple’s foisting a false sense of security on its users by “hyping” one security feature.
This is what Apple actually says to users about Mac OS X security:
Couldn’t be more hype-free.
I hate it when security researchers seem like they’re rooting for software companies to fail at protecting users. Makes me feel like they’re not interested in security, but rather they’re interested in being the smartest, snarkiest guy in the room.
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