Boy, do I long for the days where this list would require bottom
posting.
On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
QUESTION: Do I run any risk to my Mac and or the house
ethernet with this possible connection that provides an
access point for a virus of unknown existence and threat?
Thanks.
JML
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Gordon Stevens <[email protected]>
wrote:
At the risk of displaying my absolute
ignorance, I would say that Macs with G3, G4 or G5 cpus are
VERY low risk of virus. Most virus programs run on
Intel processors and live in DOS/Windows environments.
Most virus programs are tiny and so not very smart.
Thus they probably won't be a problem for you.
If that is wrong, please educate me..
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
Will a suspected infection virus be able to enter my Ethernet
connection - notice this does NOT ask the question of entering the
other box, just the Ethernet connection - keeping in mind the
reasoning here: since Ethernet IS THE SAME FOR ALL MACHINES, and IF
I happen to be so un lucky as to have one of them on the suspected
machine, it could go into my Ethernet via this connection - this is
the question?
We would all hope it would not find fertile ground in this Mac,
since it does not have Intel processors, so it should be dead on
arrival in my machine.
Viruses and malware are programs that run under an operating system
(windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc). They do not run on the network
transport protocol (ethernet). So they can not infect a your Mac just
by plugging into the same router.
AFAIK, there are no cross platform viruses or malware. In addition,
all existing malware for the Mac (there are a couple of proof of
concepts out there and one adult material viewer) REQUIRE an
administrator password to be typed to allow installation.
So, basically, since this is a Mac list and we are only dealing with
Macintosh computers, as long as you do not download, install and give
your administrator password to it, there is no risk of infection.
There are no know self propagating viruses or malware that infect Macs.
If you are worried about it infecting pcs on the network, that is off
topic on this list.
Len
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