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OS X can be attacked

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Benzy

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Ok so I been on a Mac for 6 months, the reason i moved to Mac was to get myself a peace of mind from virus, worms, spywares, trojans and etc.

But today, one of my friend (who likes to prank people) sent me a link:

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DO NOT click on this link, what it does is, it will take over your computer, open a bunch of websites with what ever browser you're using, open skype, try to message a bunch of people, open mail, create 25 drafts, and open terminal and etc.

I had to force quit mail, skype, terminal and safari to terminate this bs. Looks like OS X isn't safe after all?
 
ANY OS can be attacked. No one has ever said OS X is immune to attacks. It is, however, more resistent to uninvited attack than Windows. Usually, you have to invite a problem in.
 
eawmp1 said:
ANY OS can be attacked. No one has ever said OS X is immune to attacks. It is, however, more resistent to uninvited attack than Windows. Usually, you have to invite a problem in.
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but how does one suppose to know that link is actually an attack? That's the whole point isn't it? To prevent things like that from happening. We can be surfing the web and run into links like that all the time. If this was the case then how is OS X any different to windows?
 
I didn't see the page, but everything you said (except the launching of Terminal :confused: ) isn't an attack. It's just a page launching applications from links to different registered protocols. Most likely nothing more than some JavaScript.
 
Benzy said:
but how does one suppose to know that link is actually an attack? That's the whole point isn't it? To prevent things like that from happening. We can be surfing the web and run into links like that all the time. If this was the case then how is OS X any different to windows?
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You can't download TryThis.EXE and run it. :)
 
That's not an attack, that's just overloading your computer with requests to download stuff and try to open applications, making it harder for you to deny it.

I removed the link because I doubt anyone else wants to see what that is, not to mention it's offensive (I didn't look at it long enough to care what else was on it).
 
edesignuk said:
I didn't see the page, but everything you said (except the launching of Terminal :confused: ) isn't an attack. It's just a page launching applications from links to different registered protocols. Most likely nothing more than some JavaScript.
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I didn't click it (I'm at work), but I did ask the Mods to disable it.
I assumed it was probably a JavaScript as well.

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