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Apple Updates Mountain Lion Developer Preview With New Security Features
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It includes the Brand New Version of Adobe Flash Ultra Plus! Just click away the warning that Apple does not trust it - because it's Beta and ultra-new - and you can enjoy reading your banking information on a Chinese website!
People like me care, and this guy obviously. I feel his pain. Reading an endless amount of blogs, it does get tiresome to hear the same tired, misused language over and over again, most often because those using it think it makes them sound cool, so we don't figure out they're not some unemployed videogame addicted geek living in their parent's basement, which makes it a, you know dude, an EPIC FAIL. Whoever invented using "fail" as a noun should be shot - along with the person who invented, "my bad."
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Just go to Purchases in the Mac App Store app and it should be listed there - just click Download to download it again (just make sure you are logged in with the account you used when redeeming the code)
I've got all the DPs still listed in my MAS
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Open the Mac App Store and hold option as you click on the Purchases button. This should give you the option to download it again.
Weird, my Windows 7 computers just asked me if I wanted to install updates when I shut off the computer. It already downloaded them in the background without bothering me.
It couldn't be that Windows had options regarding updates - options that it shows you when you first install it so you can forget it. Nah.
All those classic Mac OS viruses (real viruses not just trojans or whatnot) obviously never existed because Classic marketshare < OS X marketshare.
Same thing about all that Android malware. It must not exist because the Android marketshare is about equal to the iOS marketshare (combined) and iOS doesn't really have any malware.
MSFT won't do automatic updates by default because enterprise usage requires hours/days/months of testing software with a current security update to make sure nothing breaks. Lot of companies are running very old software that if a single update was done, it would break it.
For example, we use one piece of software at work that if a specific update is installed, it breaks the use of one of our software. We are on Win 7 Pro x64 with SP 1. I can't remember the exact kb# of the update, but the company stresses not to use it. And the company isn't some small company either, its Mazak. Go figure.
I see Apple potentionally having problems if this affects third party software.
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Can you prove OS X was less secure? Can you prove Windows was more secure? Where did you get this info? Please list your sources.
And which versions of Windows were you comparing and which version of OS X? With what security updates on Windows did you compare with OS X?
See where I'm going with this?
Darn right. I switched in 2005, from XP to Tiger and Tiger was MUCH more secure than XP was.
Security is moot point. OS X was significantly more secure back in the Windows XP days but with the improvements that MS has made in Vista and 7 they are on equal footing. Just watch what you download and you'll have a slim chance of getting a virus on either platform.
The only one it shows is from May and doesn't give me an option to update to the latest through the Mac store.
But it's not.
What the other users said is true. Mac OS X and Linux are mostly virus-proof not because they are really more secure than Windows, but because of the Market Share (altough I think Linux patches security holes faster than Apple does with the OS X, when they find one).
Microsoft is reportedly, by far, the company that invests most in security in their OS.
Imagine you're a malware programmer. Why would you, in the past years, target Mac OS X or Linux if they represent barely 5% of all computers worldwide (10% at that time, in USA). You would code something that would only get, at best, in 10% of the PCs in only ONE country? Nope, I guess.
In the last few years, market share has been improving thanks to the iPhone, iPad etc. Now, malware programmers are beginning to target OS X. But not ONLY because of the market share, but because, since Apple never had to worry about this kind of thing, it's easy to spread the virus. Apple always told users Macs don't have viruses, and so users don't worry about malicious web pages and emails. That makes the virus easier to spread, and more effective.
That's so true that when the last couple OS X malwares were found, they had infected a significant amount of Macs and it took a long time to notice the malware infection AND a long time to write a patch that really worked for it.
With Microsoft's 90%+ Market share, almost every malware developer targets Windows. It's not surprising that, even investing heavily in security since Windows XP, Windows still has some exploitable security holes.
Aple is just now understanding how's to be targeted by malware developers and is trying to fix stuff, but new malwares will appear and, you know, things will be more like Windows...
Wanna security? Run OS/2. No viruses, I guarantee. Or BSD, why not?
And the reason there's no virus for iOS and stuff is that iOS is EXTREMELY closed. You can't install anything on it without using the AppStore or jailbreaking it. Android is much more open in this point.
iOS has security flaws, of course, but apparently, none of them are exploitable to make a virus, or Apple is really quick to patch them.
There were a few security holes in the PDF viewing engine last year, if I remember correctly.
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Originally Posted by mbh said:
We should all care! The language in the USA is becoming so convoluted that it's becoming almost impossible to communicate or understand what's being said. Substituting 'weight' for 'size' when the subject has no weight is confusing and a bastardization of the language.
But you should really be measuring mass instead for measuring the size of a file because it confuses people who live on the moon.
It is truly amazing how some people are so ignorant with regards to Mac security. Apple has been playing catch-up on the security front since the birth of Windows Vista. The tragedy here is Apple's lack of responsibility in pretending that its OS X was secure instead of simply saying that all OS's have vulnerabilities and that proper precautions should be exercised. Windows machines have been serving up daily doses of security patches for years now Apple should be embarrassed rather than touting this as a new security feature.
Read this interview of Dr. Charlie Miller he explains how Macs were quite vulnerable but have improved significantly with the introduction of Lion. Apple may well have caught up but this has only been a more recent occurrence.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/18/the-engadget-interview-dr-charlie-miller/
Redesigned Safari Developer Tools is fine again, thankfully. The wysiwyg highlighting feature wasn't working anymore in DP4.
Malware is a B!t@H!!
Now i can't complete 1 million reason why i love my MBP and the Apple ego system!
999,999,999 reason is still good though!!
Now i can't complete 1 million reason why i love my MBP and the Apple ego system!
999,999,999 reason is still good though!!