Posted on 02/11/2009 5:56:40 AM PST by ShadowAce
You may well have a decade on me, but I bet I have more miles on the chassis and am still “the fossil”.
best regards,
Texas Fossil
Yeah, social engineering can get people to install software that's bad for their system. FWIW, on my Mac, there are several flags to warn you, but you can overcome them. First, if you download an application, you're warned it's an application before it completes download. Second, even if you're logged in as an administrator, you still have to enter the admin password to install (that's a serious flag.) Third, the first time a program executes, you have to give it permission to run, permission to access the keychain, and permission to access the internet.
But YES, if you ignore all this, you CAN install a trojan on a Mac. I suspect the same is true for Linux.
LOL!
Hmmm....OK.....thanks.
bkmk
Well, you've both got a slight edge on me in age, and maybe even raw mileage, but a lot of my mileage was in unpaved and off-road terrain... /g
Most of my miles were road miles, I traveled for a living for over 30 years. Never under 35,000 miles per year and most 50-65,000 miles per year.
Lots of windshield time. Would have been pretty boring except I took Ham radio with me.
Regards,
Texas Fossil
“Therefore, we are told, the very architecture of Linux is so much more superior to Windows that it’s just not possible to successfully spread malware. Of course – it is acknowledged – a low-level bug, a buffer overflow or other issue is exploitable. But nevertheless, users can’t just catch a virus by email or downloading malware from the Internet, contrary to “those Windows users”. Linux will protect them from their own stupidity.”
What a huge straw man... There is a difference between ‘imposible’ and ‘more difficult’ which this article totally ignores.
Personally, I do not recommend Clam-Av anymore.There have been too many reports of it deleting email, mine included. It seems to happen primarily with Thunderbird, but I have seen reports of users’ email being deleted from Evolution, as well.
I haven’t heard or seen any negative feedback on using AVG-Free for Linux...yet. LOL
Thanks.
Re: Dvorak...I’d really like to say “I told you so!” LOL
Not if you use the console, for sure. Even using the GUI, I haven’t seen any warnings about opening files, but I don’t usually use the GUI fro installing downloaded apps.
But then, I never try to open something without knowing what it is first.
99% of all the software I install, comes from the Ubuntu repository, the other 1% is downloaded from trusted sources.
The Mac precautions you mention must be what MS copied into Vista, eh? (My newest Mac is 10 years old-LOL)
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