On Monday, February 09, 2004, at 04:21PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you're running a pre-OSX Mac, you're safe. > >Period. > >Virtually none of the Mac viruses are still in the wild, and it is flat >out NOT hackable. You don't NEED a firewall. The ONLY possible way to >your system is if you have guest access to sharing. Turn that off. Or if you have Personal Web Sharing enabled. IIRC it's not that secure in OS 8/9. >If you're running OSX, turn on the built-in firewall. That's it. > >Simple, just like a Mac. There is of course a need to check for viruses even if you can not be infected yourself.Just becuase you prefer a Mac doesn't mean you can get away wiyth infecting your PC using brethren with a Windows virus, even if it is pretty hard in mjost Mac mail clients. >As for spam, well, Netscape's 7.1 mail client is really good at it's >filtering, we're using that here in the College and it's quite >effective. If you are using OS X try the Mail.app program. It's simple and effective and culls most Spam. A little slips thru but then Spammers come up with a new way top beat spam filters every hour - and Mail.app never lets the same stuff through twice. -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
