Not strictly true, also with the number of holes in Quictime recently injecting malicious code over a website has never been easier. The Mac was pwned quicker than even Windows a coupleof months back at a hacker convention and the exploit has only just been patched. Whilst it is in theory harder to elabste priviledges from user to administrator it isn't imposible. As for Trojan's these could contain key loggers which if you do only banking are very bad.
Having said all that I don't run antivirus but then I also have over 15 years of Unix sytems programming under my belt and I would hope could spot most things that didn't belong. On the whole if you are sensible you should be ok but this also includes things like not connecting to public wifi, ensuring you are firewalled etc and unless you have the latest updates not viewing QuickTime files on websites. Ian Sent from my iPhone On 26 Sep 2008, at 18:54, Sam - MacAmbulance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are no viruses for OS X, there are a few trojans, which can > only be installed when you type your password in, that change your > DNS settings to point you to advert websites. > > Common sense is a much better protection than antivirus software on > the Mac. Don't download software from file sharing networks such as > Limewire, don't run installers that you aren't sure where they came > from, don't run (for example) an installer that purports to install > Microsoft Office 2008 and is only 500k in size (file menu > get > info), set Safari not to auto open downloaded files (preferences > > untick 'open "safe" files after downloading). > > The only virus I've ever seen affect OS X is the MS Word macro virus > which embeds itself into your normal document template and annoys PC > users if they open the file. It affects your ability to send > documents to people as the email servers recognise the virus and > block the mail but it doesn't affect your Mac at all. The fix is to > delete home folder > Documents > Microsoft User Data > Normal.dot > > Regards > > Sam > > providing affordable Apple & PC services > Sam Mullen > 07747 778022 > http://www.macambulance.co.uk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
