Morning All,
Yes Peter agree entirely and I think yo will find most of the
information??? being paraded around through so-called respectable
rags. Being related to whom sponsors a major portion of an
advertising budget and provides some wonderful kickbacks on licensing
arrangements and succumbed to the womb for vital information leaks.
Then their is the I hate Mac syndrome, cause unknown, but it feels
good even though personally never have used such a machine; in this
country I believe it comes across as cost and the class mentality.
On the possibility of such attacks happening at moment very doubtful
on a standard install.
For those security minded or visiting the internet or internal
business networks have your OS X provided Firewall operational, and
close any unnecessary services (preferences - sharing). Visit browser
and software preferences blocking the open files after download or
access, without at least asking you first, utilising keychains for
passwords.
Upon initialising above recommendations. I do not believe their is
anything at present to worry about as this creates a very safe and
secure environment to work within, even in an M$ networked environment.
But, as usual mission critical servers / workstations open to the
internet or open space would be advised to keep some form of logs and
check them regularly, as would checking those untrusted files before
installing or activating them. If you really wont to get paranoid run
a virus scanner across your email library folder as things get
downloaded to it or after if less worried. But, do not get too
excited about the windows infected files you will discover. Also in
an office environment another security feature is to set "Require
password to wake this computer from sleep or screen-saver" in
security preferences and have an active corner on desktop too
initialise when leaving machine.
One part of the articles I am still sitting on the fence for is the
Intel and close proximity to same machines on desktop of bored
windows users and the red rag being offered to them. They no longer
have to purchase or hijack a Mac machine to get same working hardware
we are all equal sort off, past experiences have shown anything is
possible. Time will be the measure, but Linux is surviving as are
many other OS's within same hardware environment. I trust Apple keep
one step in front, but Apple can run windows so why shouldn't I be
able to run OS X, too much too offer?
Paranoia and Scepticism are a wonderful part of human nature.
Cheers!
'Rob...
On 4May2006, at 8:31 am, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 03/05/2006, at 3:00 PM, Natas Porter wrote:
experts..?
please!
http://daringfireball.net/2006/05/good_journalism
This article says it all, IMHO.
To put it bluntly, the score so far stands at:
Mac OS X - 2
Widows - countless thousands
and even the two for Mac are still little more than proof of
concept. Shortly after the Ommpa-Loompa Trojan was announced, a
journalist writing for MacWorld deliberately infected one of his
Mac with it, then spend two hours' hard work, in conjunction with a
colleague, to get it to do anything at all. When they finally
succeeded, the effects were worth no more than a shrug.
On the other hand, an unprotected, new installation of Windows XP
(SP1) or 2000 can become infected with a virus within minutes of
being connected to the Internet. This is far more impressive.
--
Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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