Friendly Computers discovered that the next version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, could come with an antivirus feature. This is a surprise, considering one of the major selling points of Macs and Mac OS X is that they are prone to be malware-free. Read more below…
We’ve gotten reports about an interesting feature in Snow Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X due for release this Friday. According to reports we’ve seen – and the screen shot below – Snow Leopard contains an antimalware feature.
We’re not sure yet exactly how this works, but the above screen shot shows this feature working with a download made via Safari, detecting a version of the RSPlug Trojan horse in a downloaded disk image.
Source: http://blog.intego.com/2009/08/25/snow-leopard-contains-an-antivirus/
