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To: TC Rider
"Virus attacks every Mac ever made, hundreds affected."

Cute. Here Let me re-state it correctly for you:

"No Vruses attack every OSX Mac ever made, 20,000,000 not infected!"

50 posted on 01/02/2006 4:28:15 PM PST by Swordmaker (Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
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To: Swordmaker
"No Vruses attack every OSX Mac ever made, 20,000,000 not infected!"

Why do these threads always degenerate into Mac versus PC quibbling.....who gives a crap. If you want virus proof tech buy WebTV, I spend days repairing computers for friends that click on every popup and email......I have a Windows 2000 system running Firefox, ZA and AVG that has never been infected in 4 constant years of use.....to each their own.

59 posted on 01/02/2006 4:37:59 PM PST by Decepticon (The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day (NRA)
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To: Swordmaker; TC Rider

I like the Mac, but we computer users are up against a new generation of packet-crafting tools (e.g., Metasploit), and greatly expanded and more accessible information about buffer overflows, etc.

What folks are missing here is that the race against expliots by using conventional security measures (firewalls, IDS, VA) is soon to come to an end. Companies will have to run massively parallel firewalls just to keep up with them.

Go over to the Steve Gibson page and read the alert; the possibility of maxing-out processors is inherent in this new exploit, and it will be a more common technique this year (Metaspolit was released in 2005, and there will be other exploit tools of its type).

We are looking at exploits that operate at the single bit and byte level, and the patch makers won't be able to keep up with attacks that are launched by the hundreds with single bit variations, or that might even be self-modifying.

It's going to be an exciting decade. And Mac users won't be exempt.


66 posted on 01/02/2006 4:42:00 PM PST by angkor
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