never hurts to have it =)

can’t wait to hear what the haters would say

I just started using Leopard with a new Mac I just got (my old Mac couldn’t handle Leopard) and I was surprised to see it tell me a file had been downloaded, when, from where, and did I want to run it or not. It even seemed to work whether I had unZIPped the file, moved it from the disk image that was downloaded, and more. It impressed the hell out of me, especially since I hadn’t heard about it, and my Windows using friend thought it looked very useful. Adding on malware detection to give one more reason not to run or install something downloaded is very very cool.

The ironic thing about this is that one of the only ways of getting this Trojan was by stealing Apple software…

Tell us ComputerBandGeek, what are the other ways?

The other ways were stealing non-Apple software

I think Adobe CS4 was high on the list

OS X Server has had ClamAV for quite some time. There is a “clamav” user defined in regular OS X as well. I’d bet that Apple has simply integrated clamav with the same download validation framework already used by Safari/iChat/Mail.

Just like Safari’s parental controls are implemented using the built-in apache web server configured in proxy mode to implement white-listing, Apple seems to figure out how to leverage the open source software already present in really cool ways.

Now if only they would integrate GnuPG with Mail…