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Free AVG Internet Security 2015 4 Year License
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dozy doctor wrote: »Well get a refund then...
You have a certain period to change your mind when purchasing over the internet, right
Indeed. Just annoying I'd done it before seeing this
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I better walk over to to my Mac researcher colleague and tell him he is out of job. I am a threat researcher for a AV company BTW and I spend all day classifying threats across various platforms.
Researchers at Palo Alto Network say more than 450 Mac OS X applications offered on a Chinese third-party application store called Maiyadi have been seeded with WireLurker.
http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2014/11/wirelurker-new-era-os-x-ios-malware/
http://www.thesafemac.com/dr-web-announces-new-iworm-malware/
And dropped files are not the only reason to run an AV. What about Phishing attempts,Man in the middle attacks, protecting browser data (leaking from browser sessions, protecting clipboard data)? A modern AV's job is more than just blocking infections its multiple layers of protection such as Website reputation and IP Lookup which occurs before a user even sees a website. And I don't care how advanced a user you are some of the advanced threats you cannot notice a system impact so if even if you really take care you can still get infected.
The list goes on, not to mention the heartbleed and Poodle exploits which can affect Unix based OS's.
I can get you some MD5's and samples if you want to test them yourself? Or would you just like to keep spreading the myth?
Ah sure why not here is a few to get you started:
7f7cbc62c56aec9cb351b6c1b1926265
dd7421fb6ca03c5752a06cffb996285a
2d86dce83851f76493ba0492d066c095
4b6eb782f9d508bbe0e7cfbae1346a43
39084b60790ca3fdebe1cd93a4764819
1734E778EE786D0FD0E8005AEAE06F69
6C5D8B4B562081114463D3420EB53968
B24C0E60AF3D3E836FBE8A92FBCC8EB7
FEE9E5D1802146C7C91B51C02F677FA4
42792BF6CA54949A9E038CD1F5E324F8
4CB95BE21CC8BCFB4ED1F61C565F2EB1
B3EDBC6981DDF6CBD1E144A778453704
57EAF619CFE39ED3C3368DF3E806F3C0
47ED859F5B11648A45023190E74E7B46
8C6C667EA096D66087167C5AD571A172
0D235B971723E47CE0AA14D7D5F381FE
673FD5E850CF1C42C779C5A83479C36E
B4ECE10D1E706B87B065523A654D48A7
5DFE2C8E919A48763640DF54A432ED6F
Need I remind you that Windows has over 90% of the desktop OS market. Since malware authors are all about money it makes sense to target the area where they can make the most money. Why target 5-7% of the market when you can target 90%. The MacOS isn't some magical vault that the Apple people would have you believe.
AV is a broken technology and you know it. Thats why you can get it for free. There is nothing for free in this life. It will protect you against maybe 50-60% of whats out there and give the user a false sense of security. While there are millions of unique samples of windows malware out there, for OS X that is around 2k unique samples. All of the high profile incidents to companies from malware have AV and multiple forms of AV. Now don't get me wrong having AV is a good idea like locking your doors at night is a good idea but its not going to keep people out if they really want to break in.
"Researchers at Palo Alto Network say more than 450 Mac OS X applications offered on a Chinese third-party application store called Maiyadi have been seeded with WireLurker." - anyone who installs pirated software from an untrusted source on OS X which requires them turning off gate keeper in security settings is hardly a victim.
Looking at the MD5s you have posted. I don't think your employer past or present would like you publishing data on samples especially some of them are not public.
The MacOS isn't some magical vault that the Apple people would have you believe.
- It sure ain't. Java, flash being the main avenue of choice in browser exploitation.
Simply not having Java installed (which is default), noscript, flash on click only I feel it is as close to a magical vault that you are gonna get.
- heartbleed/poodle are both server side attacks (as in the web server has the issue). No AV product on the client would helped you here.
- ShellShock, again this is something that is not going to effect a home user unless they have forwarded a port back to an internal system, also remote access(ssh) needs to be enabled which is off by default. Because of NAT and most people have no idea what ssh is most people need not worry about this.
Many of those samples are java and even the most untrained user would see there is something wrong when they see a message like below that they have to ignor, check a box and click run before anything happens.
PS the reason this is free is same way a drug deal gives the first one for free. They hope you will renew it down the road so give it for free now
So in summary if your a windows user then installing an AV is a good idea (but 60% effective at best) but as a mac user, don't turn off security features, enable unneeded services, install software from untrusted sources, don't use java, use noscript, flash on click you should be fine as chances are at that stage if you do get infected AV is not going to safe you but if you are interested in running a resource hog that will keep your machine nice and warm AV is a good option or a free option would be open terminal and run "yes > /dev/null" as it will have the same effect.0 -
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