What do you have turn off in preferences? Like I said I only used chrome, so I haven't really checked the safari preferences in a while.
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New Variant of 'Mac Defender' Quickly Evades Apple's Security Update as Cat-and-Mouse Game Begins
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What do you have turn off in preferences? Like I said I only used chrome, so I haven't really checked the safari preferences in a while.
This is looking more and more like a MS smear campaign, maybe they're even paying people to write this malware.
Why is it always the MS shill (Ed Bott) reporting this on his "Ed Bott's Microsoft Report" regular articles on ZD Net?
Shouldn't he be, well, reporting on Microsoft instead?
Why is it always the MS shill (Ed Bott) reporting this on his "Ed Bott's Microsoft Report" regular articles on ZD Net?
Shouldn't he be, well, reporting on Microsoft instead?
i'm not sure how you made that distinction. the "single point of failure" is not just an issue of stability (ie something gets corrupt on your hard drive where the registry is located) but also security (malware attacks). i'm not sure how true this is anymore, but a piece of malware, for example, could inject bad registry keys to get windows update to go to a remote 3rd party server. the point is that because the registry is so central, successful malware damage has further-ranging implications than if your system settings were scattered across an /etc folder under an admin lock.
EDIT: that being said, MS has made a lot of moves to shore up the registry, but it remains one of several key chinks in their security armor.
Oooh. Where can I get a copy of Mac Defender?
Lodsys, Samsung (or whomever), give us a break.
If that's what it takes.
Didn't know that.
The way you worded your initial post didn't make it sound like you did.
A full a/v solution in the form of Security Essentials is a good deal more than Apple is doing.
If she has the security update, it should eventually download a definition update and remove the thing for her. I am not sure how exactly what this will look like to her, it may be totally transparent to the user.
i would have the exact reverse outlook. used to have to deal with antiviruses a lot, etc moved to *nix systems (incl os x) and not having a registry is way way preferable.
part of that might be because windows didn't have a security model for system .ini's back in the day, so i can understand in that context why a registry (which has controlled system calls iirc) may be preferable to having 1000 windows .ini files that any program could edit. but in that case, that's a bandaid on a bigger problem (which MS has moved away from by, ironically, adopting *nix style access controls) and *not* a sign of security.
That has been rumored for many years. I remember when VirusScan was at version 60 or something in the early 90s and was told of the 500 or so viruses it scanned for that over 400 were written in Eastern Europe by the virus software people to justify the app.
If you are using only Chrome, there is nothing you really need to do. I still would recommend turning it off in Safari (e.g. in case someone else uses your machine and prefers Safari)
1. start safari
2. open safari preferences (safari/preferneces menu)
3. in the general tab, uncheck the "Open "safe" files after downloading
4. enjoy
That is more than likely the case, I, and many others, have believed this for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
do you also think that doctors go around infecting people with illnesses so that they can stay in business? firemen go around setting houses a fire?
>he thinks infecting people is equal to infecting computers.
I can't hahaohwow hard enough sir.
Well in terms of doctors, when was the last time you had a doctor actually cure anything? They delay things like cancer and AIDS but they sure as hell don't cure it, no money in that.
As for firefighters, no I don't think so they are employed by the state and get's paid regardless of fires.
opcorn: LOVE watching all the slap-fighting & virtual muscling-up that happens in these threads. thanks, i'm here all night.
seriously though, are they not teaching metaphor in schools these days? let me be more literal: just because the incentive may exist does not mean that the reality is there.
Thanks I rarely use safari at all but I have to other people that use my imac every now and then. My mom uses mozilla and my gf likes to use safari but I told her about this macdefender malware so she isn't completely clueless about it.
Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.80 (iPhone; Opera Mini/6.13548/24.871; U; en) Presto/2.5.25 Version/10.54)
Safari 6? It's just around the corner...
zmonster said:
Safari 6? It's just around the corner...
The writers of these things are attention whores. Seeing the lengths that Apple is going to stop one malware threat (and it's variants), there are likely several other attacks being planned. The parallels between Microsoft if the early 00's and Apple today is stunning.
i know i shouldn't feed the troll, but, there are plenty of flaws in what you just said (ie you think tax payers would keep funding firefighters ie employ them by the state if they didn't think they were getting their money's worth? there are jurisdictions that have ditched their formal fire departments; what about surgeons? do you honestly think that surgery accomplishes nothing?).
more to the point, see my other post. just because you can imagine that the incentive system exists does not produce reality.