On 4/26/04, Neil Bradley put forth:
make a trojan horse, that doesn't exist, and even in theory is
extremely unlikely to work (it would have the wrong file permissions).
> > >There are less viruses written for Macs,That's not an actual virus. That's a theoretical, possible way too
>> Actually, I haven't seen a single new Mac *virus* in quite a few years.
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>http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1335
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>But it underscores my point, apps are what cause undue risk to the system,
>not the underlying OS itself.
make a trojan horse, that doesn't exist, and even in theory is
extremely unlikely to work (it would have the wrong file permissions).
>Not necessarily... the default accounts in OSX (at least 10.2) are su.Then you must be running some bizzare version of 10.2 That is not the case.
>Whoops. Same problem that the default user accounts for Windows has. ;-(
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>I run OSX 10.2 on a G4 tower, and the default user account it asks me to
>create is root. Whoops. ;-(