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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 842054" data-attributes="member: 83059">Yeah I&#039;d say the last time I got surprised by malware (and needed to be saved by an AV) was 3+ years ago, when I was being stupid and thought I found a trustworthy Windows Loader (activation bypass) that was actually a rootkit. That wasn&#039;t even a zero day.With that said, zero days are still a thing, albeit rare. Just yesterday when browsing 9to5mac I got redirected by a rogue advertisement to a &quot;your Norton has expired&quot; scam hosted on a .XYZ domain. The domain was fresh and had zero detection on VT. The payload it delivered was Mac malware but it was a zero day with a 2/59 detection ratio (up to 4/59 if I unpack various scripts and submit them separately, which more simulates what a runtime scanner would find). I checked again today and the detection ratio is much higher.Sure it&#039;s Mac malware and that&#039;s different than Windows malware, but average Joes can still encounter these kinds of zero days.(BTW ESET was one of 2 engines that actually caught it though, so I&#039;d say your zero day protection is just fine on ESET)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 842054, member: 83059"] Yeah I'd say the last time I got surprised by malware (and needed to be saved by an AV) was 3+ years ago, when I was being stupid and thought I found a trustworthy Windows Loader (activation bypass) that was actually a rootkit. That wasn't even a zero day. With that said, zero days are still a thing, albeit rare. Just yesterday when browsing 9to5mac I got redirected by a rogue advertisement to a "your Norton has expired" scam hosted on a .XYZ domain. The domain was fresh and had zero detection on VT. The payload it delivered was Mac malware but it was a zero day with a 2/59 detection ratio (up to 4/59 if I unpack various scripts and submit them separately, which more simulates what a runtime scanner would find). I checked again today and the detection ratio is much higher. Sure it's Mac malware and that's different than Windows malware, but average Joes can still encounter these kinds of zero days. (BTW ESET was one of 2 engines that actually caught it though, so I'd say your zero day protection is just fine on ESET) [/QUOTE]

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