Bad news for Mac antivirus
Date: April 30, 2007Source: blogs.guardian.co.uk
It's an interesting interview mostly for the end part, in which Gruber asks Dai Zovi (whose primary job is what we could call "pen-testing" - trying to penetrate security systems to make them more robust) what sort of security precautions he takes.
Gruber: Do you use a Mac as your primary computer? If so, what security precautions do you take? I’m going to go out on a limb and predict you do not use any sort of commercial anti-virus package.
Dai Zovi: I use a Mac as my primary, secondary, and tertiary computers :). I take some extra security precautions such as always running as a non-admin account, using separate encrypted disk images and keychains for different purposes, and isolating data on different machines. I also take some extra precautions that I’m not going to advertise publicly :). I do not, however, run any commercial anti-virus packages.
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