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29.2.04
OSX virus in the wild!
While PC users need to spend processing power on virus guards, we Mac users live in the wild. "OSX users are unprotected" is what I read somewhere. Are we?
It seems there was a osx virus active two months ago. You needed to have either 10.2.5 or .6 installed in order to be able to run the virus, and it is likely to have been killed in the security updates :-(. The virus was an applescript that got installed through "safari" and sent 100 spams through "mail" on restart. I restart my osx ibook say... at least once a month. So this must have been one hell of an active virus...
So... a virus in 2004... That makes a total of 1 (one) this year. If we needed to express this rise in % compared to the figures of the last decade, we would have a astronomical figure. From 0 to 1 is a nearly infinate rise. Still, selling anti virus software for the mac is a fraude, afaic, until there is really something to chech for. Until then, a virus checker may only be installed on OSX for religious reasons, and is thereby the OSX counterpart of ''Atheism'' in terms of functionality.
PC people have to face 800 virus releases per month, of which 2 manage to infect millions. What are the disease, the symptom, and the cure in this case? PC users seem to feel the virusses are the disease, and the virus checker is the cure. I am of the opinion that the the OS is the disease, the virusses are the symptom, and the cure is to switch to something unix based. (N.B. FreeBSD hasn't had a single security leak in 7 years.) The virus checker is not the cure for Windows at all. The need for a virus checker that needs to be upgraded for every single brand of virus that came to excisting, THAT equals being unprotected. See the news items about virusses of our ISP xs4all: (nl) (en)
Here's a list of Linux distributions that can boot from cd, and leave your windows installation alone. And if you are reluctant to switch OSses, please do see that Windows is not your PC as such, but merely a program to access your hardware. It's a sonic+graphic representation of the data on your harddrive, cd, or webpage. It's virtual. It's not immoral to kill virtual entities. In fact, I think you should. Enter the next level. The odd thing about this get-a-better-OS-game is that the next level is easier. "Tsssytsyk, you got the body armour."
It seems there was a osx virus active two months ago. You needed to have either 10.2.5 or .6 installed in order to be able to run the virus, and it is likely to have been killed in the security updates :-(. The virus was an applescript that got installed through "safari" and sent 100 spams through "mail" on restart. I restart my osx ibook say... at least once a month. So this must have been one hell of an active virus...
So... a virus in 2004... That makes a total of 1 (one) this year. If we needed to express this rise in % compared to the figures of the last decade, we would have a astronomical figure. From 0 to 1 is a nearly infinate rise. Still, selling anti virus software for the mac is a fraude, afaic, until there is really something to chech for. Until then, a virus checker may only be installed on OSX for religious reasons, and is thereby the OSX counterpart of ''Atheism'' in terms of functionality.
PC people have to face 800 virus releases per month, of which 2 manage to infect millions. What are the disease, the symptom, and the cure in this case? PC users seem to feel the virusses are the disease, and the virus checker is the cure. I am of the opinion that the the OS is the disease, the virusses are the symptom, and the cure is to switch to something unix based. (N.B. FreeBSD hasn't had a single security leak in 7 years.) The virus checker is not the cure for Windows at all. The need for a virus checker that needs to be upgraded for every single brand of virus that came to excisting, THAT equals being unprotected. See the news items about virusses of our ISP xs4all: (nl) (en)
Here's a list of Linux distributions that can boot from cd, and leave your windows installation alone. And if you are reluctant to switch OSses, please do see that Windows is not your PC as such, but merely a program to access your hardware. It's a sonic+graphic representation of the data on your harddrive, cd, or webpage. It's virtual. It's not immoral to kill virtual entities. In fact, I think you should. Enter the next level. The odd thing about this get-a-better-OS-game is that the next level is easier. "Tsssytsyk, you got the body armour."
