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| Thread ID: 78376 | 2007-04-13 00:53:00 | Alert: massive Storm Worm outbreak defeating AV software | Chris Keall (10417) | Press F1 |
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| 540580 | 2007-04-13 07:19:00 | There are viruses for mac... (and for linux for that matter). It's not just a windows only problem, it just affects windows more. |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 540581 | 2007-04-13 07:28:00 | There are viruses for mac... (and for linux for that matter). It's not just a windows only problem, it just affects windows more. Can you name any current Mac viruses that are affecting Mac users in the wild? The current Storm virus is a Windows virus. There are a couple of Linux "lab rat" viruses on a handful of test machines and one recent iPod "virus" that only works to delete Linux files when it is manually activated by the user (if that makes any sense) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 540582 | 2007-04-13 07:30:00 | Can you name any current Mac viruses that are affecting Mac users in the wild? The current Storm virus is a Windows virus. I wasn't being specific. There are viruses for everything, i can't be bothered looking for one. You are the mac user. If somebody uses it, somebody has created a virus for it. |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 540583 | 2007-04-13 07:36:00 | I wasn't being specific. There are viruses for everything, i can't be bothered looking for one. If your going to state that there are actual live Mac viruses in the wild at least provide proof to support your claim. There were a few viruses for Mac OS 9 that were transferable by floppy only but these don't affect OS X. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 540584 | 2007-04-13 07:42:00 | A lot of computer users are rather moronic and WILL click on things they don't understand. Even most cautious users will click on a so-called patch in order to save their computers thinking they are doing the right thing. Very few ask for help or advise until its too late I think the best way to check things is research them, and ask for advice, though like you say, most people don't do that. I have often come across websites trying to scam me, and some are very good but they will always have something that gives them away, it's just a matter of knowing what to look out for I guess. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 540585 | 2007-04-13 07:47:00 | Dannz, stop playing with the Jobs fanboy, youll only upset him :p And just for his benefit ... mac virus (www.sophos.com) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 540586 | 2007-04-13 07:49:00 | Hey, all I originally said was that Windows users should keep their security up to date and don't click on anything that looks suspect. Sounds like sensible computing to me. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 540587 | 2007-04-13 07:51:00 | Chaps, why not relax a bit? The world seems to have a lot of nasty people who produce and launch nasty code to cause inconvenience. Hate them. Don't go "MacOS/Windows/Linux is better/worse, more/less resistant than MacOS/Linux/Windows" every time there's a report of a new virus or worm. You won't convince each other to change OSs. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 540588 | 2007-04-13 07:56:00 | Hey, all I originally said was that Windows users should keep their security up to dateI don't. I lie, only my antivirus is up to date. And don't click on anything that looks suspect.I do Sounds like sensible computing to me.It is, though the majority of Regular Joes out there who use a computer have not had this sort of training and even with, they will still not use it. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 540589 | 2007-04-13 08:14:00 | Not trying to offend anyone but I just read this article over at zdnet.co.uk regarding Vista and security "A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept program that hackers could use to exploit Windows Vista digital rights management processes to hide malware. Alex Ionescu claims to have developed the program — D-Pin Purr v1.0 — that will arbitrarily enable and disable protected processes in Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system. Screenshots on Ionescu's blog suggest the program can be run successfully. Ionescu included stack information related to one of the processes that is by default protected on Vista. Try to retrieve that information using Process Explorer and you get an error message. In Ionescu's screenshot, taken after allegedly removing the protection, the information is visible." "weblog.infoworld.com |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
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