On Feb 22, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Feb 22, 2006, at 5:52 AM, RobK wrote: > >> If you need some frustrating entertainment, go to Google News and >> follow the OSX virus link. There are 45 related stories (as of >> this morning) relating the doom and gloom for Apple now that it's >> inundated with viruses. > > The most disheartening thing about all this press is that perhaps > the most dangerous Windows flaw ever discovered appeared during > January: the Windows Meta File exploit [1]. It got almost no press, > even though it was apparently put into Windows on purpose by > Microsoft as a hack to make up for some design limitations with > printer drivers. People are so used to devastating worms under > Windows that they just view them as another cost of doing business. > > [1] <http://news.com.com/Windows+flaw+spawns+dozens+of+attacks/ > 2100-7349_3-6016140.html> >
It gets worse ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. In the mean time this next one will have to do: U.S. Constitution: Fourth Amendment The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060222/879772c2/attachment.bin
