Wayne.B wrote:
On 2 Feb 2004 15:08:13 -0600, noah
It's not necessarily from someone in the group although updating your
anti-virus is always a good idea, and so is a firewall. There are
rascals in cyberspace who scrape EMAIL addresses from postings where
ever they can find them. Your best bet is to post with something like
a Hotmail address for a few reasons: One, they do a good job of
scanning incoming mail for SPAM and viruses. Two, they have effective
filtering which you can fine tune; and three, if the EMAIL address
gets too hot with junk you can always walk away from it and start
over.

Or get a Mac and never worry about a virus again ;-)
--
Rob

Rob wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On 2 Feb 2004 15:08:13 -0600, noah
It's not necessarily from someone in the group although updating your
anti-virus is always a good idea, and so is a firewall. There are
rascals in cyberspace who scrape EMAIL addresses from postings where
ever they can find them. Your best bet is to post with something like
a Hotmail address for a few reasons: One, they do a good job of
scanning incoming mail for SPAM and viruses. Two, they have effective
filtering which you can fine tune; and three, if the EMAIL address
gets too hot with junk you can always walk away from it and start
over.

Or get a Mac and never worry about a virus again ;-)
--
Rob

NOT true.

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Harry Krause wrote:

Rob wrote:
Or get a Mac and never worry about a virus again ;-)


NOT true.

Actually, it is. There is not a single, not one, virus listed for MacOS
X on the securityfocus sight, http://securityfocus.com/. There were a
few for the older versions but none have been written, or at the very
least released, that affect MacOS X. That's not to say the Mac is
invulnerable, there are denial of service attacks that can be waged
against any computer connected to a network and buffer overflows which
allow a cracker to take ownership of your machine. Thankfully, active
attacks like that are fairly rare against indiviuals. On the virus front
though, none have been reported for the Mac in the past two years.

There's a reason some of the more professional security experts use them:

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin...item.pl?id=215
--
Rob

"Rob" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:

Rob wrote:
Or get a Mac and never worry about a virus again ;-)


NOT true.

Actually, it is. There is not a single, not one, virus listed for MacOS
X on the securityfocus sight, http://securityfocus.com/. There were a
few for the older versions but none have been written, or at the very
least released, that affect MacOS X. That's not to say the Mac is
invulnerable, there are denial of service attacks that can be waged
against any computer connected to a network and buffer overflows which
allow a cracker to take ownership of your machine. Thankfully, active
attacks like that are fairly rare against indiviuals. On the virus front
though, none have been reported for the Mac in the past two years.

There's a reason some of the more professional security experts use them:

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin...item.pl?id=215
--
Rob

The use of Mac's is so small that is not worth writing a virus for. Linux
and Unix will be big targets soon. As more use, more attention.
Bill

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:40:36 GMT, Rob wrote:

Or get a Mac and never worry about a virus again ;-)

I guess most people have decided microsoft with a virus is better than
a mac without.

bb