[OS X TeX] OT: effective Macintosh Trojan in the wild
Aaron Jackson
jackson at msrce.howard.edu
Sun May 8 13:14:52 EDT 2005
On May 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Bernhard Barkow wrote:
>
> If you don't use ClamAV, I guess it can't do any harm to delete the
> user with the Netinfo Utility; of course, it will probably do even
> less harm to just leave the clamav user as it is...
>
The whole reason for a clamav user is strictly for UNIX security
purposes. Basically, you don't want a process to run with root
privileges unless absolutely necessary. Also along the lines of UNIX
security, a proper implementation should NEVER allow the clamav user to
login i.e. there should be no valid password associated with the clamav
user. I would assume the people at apple understand this and made it
so. I'm not going to worry about this...
Aaron
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