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1 posted on 04/24/2006 10:29:08 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: LouAvul
Bunk. No one has a seen a *nix* virus in the wild. The only way to run a Trojan Horse on a Mac is to download one and run it. Bottom line: a Mac is still a lot safer than a Windows PC.

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2 posted on 04/24/2006 10:32:07 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: LouAvul

People forget that the most virus attacks are against the most prevalent O/S. Just like most people waging an attack, they want to expend their resources where they can do the most damage.


3 posted on 04/24/2006 10:32:32 AM PDT by Ptaz (Take Personal Responsibility--it's not fun, but it's the right thing to do.)
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To: 1234; 6SJ7; Action-America; af_vet_rr; afnamvet; Alexander Rubin; anonymous_user; ...
Apple announces the new 17" MacBook Pro and the FUD writers release another flurry of FUD... this one is a recap of a month old FUD that was debunked last month. It took TWO Mac experts plus TWO security experts from Secunia and SIX HOURS to get this so-called exploit to transmit itself from one Mac to another... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

7 posted on 04/24/2006 5:33:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
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To: LouAvul
"...- The number of discovered Mac vulnerabilities has soared in recent years, with 81 found last year, up from 46 in 2004 and 27 in 2003, according to the Open Source Vulnerability Database, which is maintained by a nonprofit group that tracks security vulnerabilities on many different hardware and software platforms.

Another example of falsehood by omission. They hint at it by mentioning the Open Source Vulnerability Database, but do not explicitly mention that many of those OS X vulnerabilities are shared by EVERY version of UNIX, or Apache, or another component of the "Open Source" core of OS X... and further that everyone of those "vulnerabilities" were fixed BEFORE any exploits in the wild were reported.

9 posted on 04/24/2006 5:41:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
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Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links promising to deliver pictures of an unreleased update to a computer operating system.
This Daines guy also bought what he thought was a small dog while he was in Mexico, and it turned out to be a rat. ;')
12 posted on 04/24/2006 6:48:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: LouAvul
FUD

...and what goldstategop said

Anybody who enters an administrative password to view jpegs should turn in the computer and get an Etch-A-Sketch, they're way more secure.
13 posted on 04/24/2006 8:24:29 PM PDT by Gomez
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To: LouAvul
See the Michael Crichton speech Why Speculate?
15 posted on 04/24/2006 9:46:24 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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