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McAfee Protects Against New OS X Exploits and Viruses

McAfee is providing protection from attacks targeting the newly discovered Apple Mac OS X Command Execution Vulnerability and the recent worms targeting the Mac OS X platform, including OSX/Inqtana.a and OSX/Leap. Security experts had announced yesterday the discovery of another vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It is the third vulnerability found in less than a week.

While McAfee AVERT Labs has traditionally viewed Mac threats as a non-issue and rates the worms Low-Profile at this time, it does believe these threats demonstrate a renewed interest by the malware authoring community in the Mac OS platform.

The Apple Mac OS X Command Execution Vulnerability, which was discovered February 21 by Michael Lehn, is a critical vulnerability that exists when accessing specially crafted files. Both proof of concept exploits and malicious exploit code are public, and a patch is not yet available. Apple Mail and Safari have been identified as attack vectors for this vulnerability.


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