Hi, the article had a strong whiff of little PR heist for Symantec and a bit of a plant for those who aren't Mac savvy but may be borderline PC defectors. But wanted to pass latest tech gibber along as sometimes something will break one side of the pond before the other.
My iBook G4 is nowt 4 years old and I havent upgraded a thing and still runs like a top! Of course we know I do nothing extravagant --- On Thu, 23/4/09, Ben Rubinstein <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ben Rubinstein <[email protected]> Subject: [sussex_mug] Re: Mac attack To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 23 April, 2009, 4:01 PM It wasn't a "trial version", but pirated versions (of iWork and I think Photoshop). If you choose to download pirated versions of commercial software, from p2p or any other source, you deserve whatever you get. I recommend this article, as a general antidote to panic: http://db.tidbits.com/article/10218 - Ben On 23/4/09 15:07, Ray Packham wrote: > As I understand it there has been a trojan attached to a trial copy of > Iwork thats been downloadable via a few peer to peer networks. > personally i no longer use p2p networks. giganews is much better > anyhow. as for viruses i dont think there is likely to be a rush of > viruses, trojans and worms for the mac your safe for now but never > become complacent it has happened and will only increase as the use of > macs increases > . get a free virus checker if worried about it. > > > > On 23 Apr 2009, at 13:46, anna churchill wrote: > >> http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/22/first.mac.botnet/index.html?iref=mpstoryview >> >> You guys may already have heard of this. >> >> just out on CNN today, in US. >> >> >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
