Posted on 03/23/2005 8:18:41 PM PST by zarf
Symantec Corp.
LOL! I think someone wants to sell more software.....
LMAO
but I've had WINDOWS for over 10 years, I have an always-on internet connection with no fancy firewall. I've never had a virus of any kind on my computer. I've also never had spyware spontaneously install itself on my computer.
Whats your point?
On a Windows computer using Outlook, that doesn't help if the sender has been spoofed. I have seen viruses coming from people I know... and trust... but who did not send the email. It came to me because we have a mutual friend on a Windows computer that was compromised. His address was spoofed and the malicious code sent to everyone in the other user's address book.
Except tht OS9 and OSX share absolutly no code..
Indeed... they need another source of revenue.
I'd say you're either very lucky or very zealous about protecting your computer. I commend you.
What is "spoofed"? I would never use a PC based email program simply for that reason.
I have seen viruses coming from people I know... and trust... but who did not send the email. It came to me because we have a mutual friend on a Windows computer that was compromised. His address was spoofed and the malicious code sent to everyone in the other user's address book.
How did the spoofer get the other user's address book? Did he just send a spoofer email with the malicious code that could be recognized by other spoofed email addresses and they all share the same spoofcode?
"Spoofing" is taking an address from the infected computer's address book and making it appear as if the sender is that address instead of the actual address of the sending computer. The virus then accesses the address book on the infected computer and sends copies of itself to every other address in the address book.
I have had friends call me to complain that I sent them a virus... when that is impossible. The virus was a PC virus and I use a Mac. Turns out my address was being spoofed by a virus that infected the computers of a company I and my friends had done business with. Among others, the virus had used my address to spoof the origination data. We got a notice and apology from the company several days later when they had cleaned up thier computers. Meanwhile, my address was being used as the "source" address and the reply-to address. Fun.
Mac user BUMP!
Perhaps because they are finally getting to a market share which is signifigant enough to attract hackers. The Mac "immunity to hackers myth" was just that, a myth. Hackers rarely bothered the Mac world before now, as there wasn't sufficient numbers to justify their "cleverness".
With the rise of numbers in Mac usage, I would expect to see more, not less of this...
the infowarrior
hope you have a router
Hope you patched your OSX this week like apple asked!
As with Wintel machines, quite a number of Mac virus attacks take place due to vulnerabilities in other software, such as the MS-Office suite of programs, or IE.
Personally, the only attacks on Mac OS-based computers that I've seen have been in threads like this. ;')
You are not a real OS until you become a target for hackers. Apple may make it afterall ...
5%? Are you kidding? Try 2%.
My brother is a competent PC guy (USAF-20yrs, helped build DOD Intranet sys in Korea, builds and repairs PC's, and owns three RadioShack franchise stores, with computer departments.) and a very competent ISP builder and internet junkie (he was early and good, and was hired by a number of private ISP's for digital rebuilds, as Ind. Contractor). He used every trick known, and has still not found out who got into his address book... but he is still using PC's... and Windoze (don't ask me why, he knows Unix code)!
I owe him a debt of gratitude though, since he was the reason I bought my first Mac in 1984... I didn't want to use that c > thing...
As a matter of fact, I do, but I don't get the reference
Gee whiz...I feel left out....being a Windows user for years and not been compromised yet. Guess they'll have to hack a little harder before moving on to the 5 percenters.
If they can design the software to protect the attacks then they know what to defend against, which means that they know how to attack the Mac...
Where are these attacks coming from?
On the contrary, PS, I find this thread interesting, and I am about as rabid a Mac fan as you're going to find here. I do not, however, believe that the platform is invulnerable to attack, nor do I believe that simply viewing a thread like this is going to shake my belief in any of the things that I like about using a Mac, any more than the *numerous* discussions, FAQs, warnings, bulletins, Service Packs, etc., have deterred PC users from believing in Windows' position as comparable to Prometheus bringing fire from the Gods to mortals and the Mac platform as an abomination from the depths of Hell that must be stamped out, ridiculed and hounded out of existence at any cost.
That about cover it?
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