I was talking to a friend yesterday who owns both a PC and Mac. He got hit by spyware on his PC when he was purchasing at an on-line store. Although the site was securely encrypted and he had Nortons installed, he wasn't aware that over the course of time he had picked up lots of spyware on his internet travels with the PC. This spyware allowed someone to get hold of his credit card details and charge a cool four grand on it.
Since then he only uses his Mac for on-line shopping, but I want to know, if there's hundreds of spyware programs floating around for PC's, are there really none for Macs? Using either OS9 or OSX are we totally safe? I thought at first my friend had gone to a site that wasn't securely encrypted but that wasn't the case. He recently paid for a CD that searches out spyware programs on his PC and it reported he had over 300 different spy programs active on his machine, from looking at what programs he had installed to things more serious. So I've been googling this fact using Google.mac but not come up with much so far. -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
