Apple Takes Down Antivirus Support Recommendation 8:51 pm, December 2nd, 2008, Lonnie Lazar One day after a number of media outlets (including this one) made hay out of the fact that an Apple Support knowledgebase stated “Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities,” the company removed the page from its support website on Tuesday. “We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate,” said Apple spokesman Bill Evans, according to a report at
This type of worm hides itself as SCVHOST.EXE or SCVHOSTS.EXE so it will look like the legitimate Windows program SVCHOST.EXE. This type of virus usually spread through Yahoo Messenger. This virus is also known as W32/YahLover.Worm.gen and Win32/Autorun.R.worm.
You have seen the ads on TV, read countless comments online, and perhaps even posted a few of them yourself. The Macintosh has no need for anti-Virus software. So it is quite humorous and a touch ironic to see Apple apparently reversing the marketing machine and encouraging anti-Virus protection
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Macs’ Virus Immunity is Reaching Its Expiration Date 10:40 pm, December 1st, 2008, Lonnie Lazar I got an email today from some friends who run a Bay Area IT consultancy. They deal almost exclusively in the PC trade but are Mac savvy themselves, so I was startled a bit by the subject line for their monthly Good News / Bad News newsletter: Two Very Bad Mac OSX Viruses.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that there are spammers, sometimes the efforts taken to deal with spam actually eliminate legitimate email. There are several layers that an email has to pass through before reaching its destination and each one offers an opportunity for complication: Server Level Filters – hosting companies often have filters set server wide which lower level tech support staff are sometimes not even aware of, and may even deny their existence.