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For my Mac Friends who need no protection..
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William Foley wrote:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 Thanks for the heads up, Bill. |
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On 03/22/2005 09:57 AM +0900, William Foley wrote:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 Way ta troll, Billy-Joe! Now, how does that go again? Oh, yeah, "Create filter from message..." Have a delicious day. :-) trane -- ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Trane Francks Tokyo, Japan // Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. |
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Oh no, a sleepless night for the Apple-onians to research and explain
in great detail why each exploit has and could never constitute a threat to their empire... zzzzzzzzzz William Foley wrote: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 |
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William Foley:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 As a troll who knows nothing about the Mac OS, you may be laboring under the misconception that the Mac OS needs no protection. As the article you cited makes clear, the Mac OS needs protection, and it has the protection it needs. That's why there is still not a single virus -- not one -- or instance of spyware or zombieware et al for Mac OS X. Davoud |
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Davoud wrote:
William Foley: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 As a troll who knows nothing about the Mac OS, you may be laboring under the misconception that the Mac OS needs no protection. As the article you cited makes clear, the Mac OS needs protection, and it has the protection it needs. That's why there is still not a single virus -- not one -- or instance of spyware or zombieware et al for Mac OS X. I assure you that there were _plenty_ of Mac viruses around in the late 80s and early 90s. One of my jobs at the time was to clean up after infections of an Appletalk network (no PCs in use on that network at the time). Also, keep in mind that the original "worm" in the 80s spread only on Unix machines. If Mac numbers increase, there will be plenty of Mac specific malware to feed on them. -- Pat O'Connell [note munged EMail address] Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints, Kill nothing but vandals... |
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Pat O'Connell wrote:
Davoud wrote: William Foley: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 As a troll who knows nothing about the Mac OS, you may be laboring under the misconception that the Mac OS needs no protection. As the article you cited makes clear, the Mac OS needs protection, and it has the protection it needs. That's why there is still not a single virus -- not one -- or instance of spyware or zombieware et al for Mac OS X. I assure you that there were _plenty_ of Mac viruses around in the late 80s and early 90s. One of my jobs at the time was to clean up after infections of an Appletalk network (no PCs in use on that network at the time). Also, keep in mind that the original "worm" in the 80s spread only on Unix machines. If Mac numbers increase, there will be plenty of Mac specific malware to feed on them. Ref: March 2005 Issue Mac World "At press time research from Sophos (a maker of antivirus software) showed that 68 viruses have affected the Mac while 97,467 have affected Windows. Of those 68, most are a decade old or older and don't directly affect OS X." That's not to say there won't be one tomorrow, but Mac computers aren't generally targeted and Macs tend to have fewer security holes than Windows. I'm currently running a couple of Dells with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a several Macs at OS X 10.3.8. All running some version of XEphem. |
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On 03/22/2005 01:02 PM +0900, Sam Wormley wrote:
I'm currently running a couple of Dells with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a several Macs at OS X 10.3.8. All running some version of XEphem. I'm running XEphem 3.6.3 here on my Slackware 10.1 box. It's a nice program and is arguably able to do far, far more than I'll ever be able to do. trane -- ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Trane Francks Tokyo, Japan // Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. |
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:49:03 -0500, Davoud wrote:
William Foley: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 As a troll who knows nothing about the Mac OS, you may be laboring under the misconception that the Mac OS needs no protection. As the article you cited makes clear, the Mac OS needs protection, and it has the protection it needs. That's why there is still not a single virus -- not one -- or instance of spyware or zombieware et al for Mac OS X. Davoud That's because MAC is the underdog, fighting the good fight against the Evil of Bill Gates. Those social-reject virus writers wouldn't go after a company that seems to be composed of their kind. Or one that because of it's diminutive size in the market won't afford them any publicity. Oh yeah; I went to see the "Ring 2" on Sunday. They had an Apple in it. If Apple does nothing else well, marketing via movies and TVs what they do best. But keep your eyes on Apple; In five years, they'll be known only as the iPOD company as the computers will likely be long gone. -Rich |
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Sam Wormley wrote: Pat O'Connell wrote: Davoud wrote: William Foley: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061 "At press time research from Sophos (a maker of antivirus software) showed that 68 viruses have affected the Mac while 97,467 have affected Windows. isn't 68 to 97467 the same ratio as mac to window users Of those 68, most are a decade old or older and don't directly affect OS X." That's not to say there won't be one tomorrow, but Mac computers aren't generally targeted and Macs tend to have fewer security holes than Windows. I'm currently running a couple of Dells with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a several Macs at OS X 10.3.8. All running some version of XEphem. |
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