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Thread ID: 95375	2008-12-03 21:33:00	Godlike Computer Needs Security After All...	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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725639	2008-12-03 21:33:00	Never kick the feeding bowl of an Apple geek. Apple, which has long perpetuated the belief that its operating system is immune to security problems, is recommending that users install security software to make it harder for hackers to target its platform. "Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult," according to a support note posted last month. Apple's position - while prudent - undercuts its popular advertising campaign which anthropomorphised PCs running Windows as an overweight nerdy man with the flu. Sophos, based in Abingdon, England, currently sells an enterprise-level product for OS X, and interest has been increasing in the product, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant. Analysts in the company's labs have seen more financially motivated malicious software for OS X, Cluley said. Last week, the company spotted "OSX/Jahlav-A," a Trojan downloader. Jahlav is often planted on websites as a purported key generator that can be used to figure out valid product codes for hacked software. But if it is installed, a hacker has complete control over the Apple computer and can download other bad software to the machine to steal data, Cluley said.	SurferJoe46 (51)
725640	2008-12-03 21:47:00	But it emerged the advice was old and Apple has since removed it completely saying it was "inaccurate". The note appears to have been an update of one that first appeared on the site in mid-2007. The advice has now returned to the more familiar Apple mantra. "The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box," an Apple spokesman said. Mac users have been largely free of the security problems that plague Microsoft's Windows.	Safari (3993)
725641	2008-12-03 21:49:00	How can that be so? Here's the header: Computer & Internet Security News 02 December 2008 00:15 PST Apple tells users to get anti-virus By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service I see the date is for midnight today (US)...............and here's even more (check the date): Computer & Internet Security News 03 December 2008 Apple Trojan returns to haunt Mac users By John E. Dunn, Techworld A nasty Trojan that first hit Mac users just over a year ago has returned with sharpened teeth, a security company has revealed. According to Mac-only security company Intego, the latest variant of RSPlug, known as RSPlug.E, has been discovered by the company on porn websites masquerading as a missing ActiveX plug-in needed to play a video. As with its many equivalents in the Windows world, the software tries to trick users into installing it after complaining of a "missing Video ActiveX Object", which turns out to be where the program starts its install routine. Trying to cancel the install at this point by clicking cancel prompts the malware to deliver the message, "Please install new version of Video ActiveX Object". The only way out at this point is to exit the browser. What users get for their naivety is a DNS hijacker, capable of redirecting web address requests to any website the criminal desires, including phishing websites. "Mac users are pretty unsavvy as far as security is concerned," said Peter James of Intego, who reckoned that many still Mac users run their computers unprotected, despite numerous warnings.	SurferJoe46 (51)
725642	2008-12-03 21:54:00	news.bbc.co.uk	Safari (3993)
725643	2008-12-03 21:56:00	Duelling URLs!!! (Or 'Dueling URLs', for those who use American English)	johcar (6283)
725644	2008-12-03 22:02:00	And remember.... "The only computer that is truly safe is disconnected from the network, powered down, unplugged, burried in a concrete lined bunker with armed guards 24/7... and even then I'd check it every once in a while."	robsonde (120)
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