At 2:18 PM -0500 1/31/2009, Dan wrote: >At 1:55 PM -0500 1/31/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>Either pro Win propaganda or the truth. You judge. They say OS X >>root kits are showing up in pirated apps and copies of Apple stuff >>like ILife apps and OS X. > >They're not root kits. > >They're trojans - that make you join a botnet. > >They're in hacked iLife and Photoshop installers on PIRATE bittorrents. > >They don't function unless you manually located them, manually >download them, manually decompress them, manually launch (install) >them, then manually type in your admin password. > >That's five levels of stupidity you have to willingly do to make >each of them work. I don't know any Mac users that are that stupid. > >AND they are NOT protected against by this Google Safe Browsing bs, >because they use bittorrent, not the web.
heh. <http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/the_mac_malware_myth_perpetuated_by_surprise_anti_virus_software_peddlers/> - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
