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

2004-04-27 by Mark

On 4/26/04, Neil Bradley put forth:
> > >There are less viruses written for Macs,
>> Actually, I haven't seen a single new Mac *virus* in quite a few years.
>
>http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1335
>
>But it underscores my point, apps are what cause undue risk to the system,
>not the underlying OS itself.

That's not an actual virus. That's a theoretical, possible way too
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.
>Whoops. Same problem that the default user accounts for Windows has. ;-(
>
>I run OSX 10.2 on a G4 tower, and the default user account it asks me to
>create is root. Whoops. ;-(

Then you must be running some bizzare version of 10.2 That is not the case.

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