{"id":1036,"date":"2009-08-25T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2024-07-18T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:43:17","slug":"snow-leopard-contains-an-antivirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/snow-leopard-contains-an-antivirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Leopard Contains an Antivirus\u2026 Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;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&#8217;ve seen &#8211; and the screen shot below &#8211; Snow Leopard contains an antimalware feature.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160222022305if_\/https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/images\/snowav.jpg\" \/><\/center>We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re naturally curious about this feature, and about how thorough it is. As soon as we can find out more, we&#8217;ll post an article here. We wonder just how serious Apple thinks the malware threat is, especially since their latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL03FDD26E8B528B27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get a Mac ads<\/a> highlight the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d8paX7-MM_0&amp;list=PL03FDD26E8B528B27&amp;index=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PCs running Windows suffer from viruses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See our follow-up article with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/how-the-anti-malware-function-in-apples-snow-leopard-works\/\">more details about Snow Leopard&#8217;s &#8220;antivirus&#8221; functionality<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;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&#8217;ve seen &#8211; and the screen shot below &#8211; Snow Leopard contains an antimalware feature. 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