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.
I just recently checked in with Norton to update my virus definitions. The last update I'm aware of was in June of 2003, as I recall. For more years that I can remember, I just used Disinfectant.
The ONLY Mac virus I have ever encountered was on a used Color Classic I bought 4-5 years ago. Disinfectant took care of the problem.
There is of course a need to check for viruses even if you can not be infected yourself. Just because you prefer a Mac doesn't mean you can get away with infecting your PC using brethren with a Windows virus, even if it is pretty hard in most Mac mail clients.
Yeah, you really have to work at it to do that with Eudora.
It looks like my ISP has gotten on the ball and is blocking email with the most recent viral payloads. I haven't seen a "Microsoft Last Security Upgrade" or the SCO DDoS payloads for some time, now.
The most annoying thing about the "MS Last..." virus was that the payload was about 150 K. You get 20-30 a day via a dialup connection, that tends to make you pretty cranky.
I got a shareware app called Mail Beacon, which lets me inspect my mail queue on the server at the ISP and delete mail on the server. That was SO worth the shareware fee in terms of time saved and irritation elimination.
Nowadays, I just use it to kill the enhancement and erectile disfunction spams. -- Chris Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gis.net/~cht
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