![]() ![]() I don't think it needs to run as root to gather all the data it wants, connect to remote server and hand over that data. ![]() 19 of them are Windows machines and the one mac user happens to have some clue and doesn't click that attachment). Email virus won't work because there are too few macs out there (Virus infects a mac system, finds 20 email addresses, sends itself to them. Worms can't propagate because there isn't (enough) known remote root exploits. OS X is still much more secure than Windows and its user base is much smaller, so it isn't profitable to write viruses for it. Secondly it takes only a little social engineering to make large enough percent of users (those who don't know much about computers) to type the admin password for virus. ![]() But if attacker gains admin password, he/she/it can do anything that root user can. Perhaps not if you are just average user. ![]()
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