[sdiy] Re: OT: important PC spying / hacking

[Paul Higgins]

On Monday, April 26, 2004, at 06:00 PM, Jay wrote:

> OS X was just blessed with it's first trojan a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I remember hearing about that.  I think it's some vulnerability 
in iTunes or something; I don't know if it's been patched yet.  I ran a 
security check at the Symantec site and everything seems okay so far.

>> I don't think the Macintosh platform is nearly as susceptible to this
>> kind of thing as the Windows world--that is, if you're using OS X, and
>> not an earlier OS like 9.x.  For the same reason, other Unix-based 
>> OSes
>> such as Linux and FreeBSD should have better immunity.
>
> OS 9 hasn't had any known problems with this kind of thing _ever_. No
> viruses, no trojans, no scripts, NOTHING.

Sorry, my mistake.  I remember some of my friends having problems with 
worms, etc.  That must have been further back than the OS 9 days.  
That's a real dog of an OS, though, compared with X.  I found it 
incredibly unstable.  X is a joy to work on--uptimes of weeks, or 
longer.

-PRH

Paul Higgins
email: higg0008 at tc.umn.edu