Trojan attacking MAC OS X
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Trojan attacking MAC OS X
Well, I suppose it had to happen, somone has it in for the MAC users.
Mind you, sounds like a pretty clever piece of work
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Mind you, sounds like a pretty clever piece of work
Trojan Report
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'a pretty clever piece of work'........????
Please don't dignify the worthless scum who make Internet use so difficult and frustrating with such a comment. Why on earth do they do it - and why won't ISPs do more to stop the tide of rubbish which is clogging up the Internet......
Hackers and virus writers have no place in our society. Hopefully one day someone will start prosecuting and imprisoning them....
Please don't dignify the worthless scum who make Internet use so difficult and frustrating with such a comment. Why on earth do they do it - and why won't ISPs do more to stop the tide of rubbish which is clogging up the Internet......
Hackers and virus writers have no place in our society. Hopefully one day someone will start prosecuting and imprisoning them....
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Too bad it doesn't compare to the new Netsky variants expected to come out soon. I guess Windows really is better. 
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1081623266.html
Oh wait, that's a good thing...
goates
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1081623266.html
Oh wait, that's a good thing...
goates
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OS X's Unix underpinnings means it is "probably far more secure" than earlier Max OSes
Mac OS X, launched in 2001, so far has been shielded from the many security flaws that regularly affect Windows.
Mac OS X, launched in 2001, so far has been shielded from the many security flaws that regularly affect Windows.
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The Mac community may be relatively immune due to being a minority interest group, but once we Microsoft users have all been driven off the internet your turn will come, so its no use being smug.
Its already reached the point where its impossible for any PC user to access the internet safely. The b*ggers have found a way to bypass any firewall and anti-virus program by going in directly through the web page code itself. On my laptop, BlackIce in paranoia mode, plus Norton AV with the latest definition file in autoprotect were useless and having Java script turned off was no insurance either - they don't even use Java to load their executables, the code is in the page itself.
Once I've sorted out the latest violation of my laptop, (high-jacked and trashed directly from an inoffensive site listed on a Google search) I think I'll install Linux on my old P2 desktop and then use it only for internet browsiing, with my laptop reserved for everything else. I don't think its so much a question of MS IE being too full of holes, its just that these f%**&^%%$ing idiots have a bee in their bonnet about attacking Microsoft. There has to be a top dog in every pack and if Mac were top dog you can be sure they'd be attacking the Macs instead.
Its already reached the point where its impossible for any PC user to access the internet safely. The b*ggers have found a way to bypass any firewall and anti-virus program by going in directly through the web page code itself. On my laptop, BlackIce in paranoia mode, plus Norton AV with the latest definition file in autoprotect were useless and having Java script turned off was no insurance either - they don't even use Java to load their executables, the code is in the page itself.
Once I've sorted out the latest violation of my laptop, (high-jacked and trashed directly from an inoffensive site listed on a Google search) I think I'll install Linux on my old P2 desktop and then use it only for internet browsiing, with my laptop reserved for everything else. I don't think its so much a question of MS IE being too full of holes, its just that these f%**&^%%$ing idiots have a bee in their bonnet about attacking Microsoft. There has to be a top dog in every pack and if Mac were top dog you can be sure they'd be attacking the Macs instead.
