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Computers can get infected by viruses?
That's sounds scary. I'm glad I'm not using that system.

Viruses? Worms? What are those? I don't even own any anti-virus software either. Oh yeah, that's a Windows only problem. Well, it's been so long since I've owned a Windows PC I had already forgotten.

Maybe there is something to be said for not explaining how a virus works or a vulnerability could affect a system... i.e. just release a patch and/or the necessary steps to prevent it from getting in.

*sigh* another thing my Mac is not compatible with.

I click and click and click on this virus.exe file and nothing happens. I feel so isolated from my fellow computer users.

<Run: patchzotob.exe>

Executes

Puts Windows machine in dumpster.

Loads http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore/

/End zotob removal process

<b>Finally<b> a mainstream tech news site tells it like it is.

100, 500 or 10,000 - the answer remains the same.

I love the "For our Windows-only friends" into. Since when, on this site, is anybody who uses Windows considered a friend? Sheesh, people who've nothing but Mac that have the slightest disagreement with something Apple get reamed, ridiculed, and pilloried on this site.

Feel the "love".

Your drivin' down an expressway. Your lane has all of the potholes, the others don't have a single one. If your solution is to drive more slowly and carefully rather than shifting lanes, then don't complain about the road.

But everyone is using this lane, it must be the best one.

To go on other lanes, I was told I have to relearn how to drive.

People in the other lanes are speed-addicted cult freaks that vote Democratic and have a close gay "friend" named Steve.

My work doesn't allow me to drive in any other lane.

The entire human race
is nothing but ego-centric psychos.
The differences are just a matter to what degree.

...except, of course, for me.

I keep trying to get a virus, infection, spyware, trojan, or adware but I just can't. Apple is going to have to fix this problem or VISTA is going to burry Apple. Come on Apple. I know you can do it.

Yeh-heh-hehesssss. Listen, zupchuck, lighten up. Have you ever heard of sarcasm?

It works something like this: "Hey, zupchuck, that was a great post and a stunning contribution to the conversation. Thanks for stopping by!"

Get it?

(What? Hey, look, I always keed the folks whose names sound like someone puking.)

Yeah, why bother with viruses when you can have an update that BREAKS YOUR APPLICATIONS!

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Jobs is a turkey! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!

Those poor schmucks.....
When will they ever learn ??? Its ok you can still jump on the OSX bandwagon we'll understand

Apples own security updates might as well be a virus!!!

No VISTA won't bury, if that's what you mean by burry, Apple OSX. Since not many current Windows users won't even buy it because they say that there is no need to as Win XP does all that is needed for them.

And who says OSX is 'gay', does someone have to be in order to make intelligent decisions about life matters.

If 'gay' means being too clever for you and intelligent then yes I suppose I am and just for the purposes of this thread I am happily married to a woman who I love dearly and what's more I 'get some' every night and twice on the weekends!

As for work not allowing the use of OSX, a lot of Mac users are the same with their workplace, yes you could argue get another job that will allow you to use Macs, but in this day and age where work matters more so than ever before, high cost of everything else except a Mac as price has dropped etc, get a Mac for your home, and maybe get a Powerbook if your line of work allows for the use of personal lappies in the workplace.

You may yet impress your boss when you get that report/presentation in on time whereas others have had to grovel and delay because their computer went down with a virus infection.

The Mac can do everything Windows does; only a whole lot better.

has actually taken down some businesses I work with. Pretty BIG ones, although not national in scale.

PS, iDont, look up what a virus is sometime. It's not something that breaks a math program for a day.

I am always amazed at how many people don't know that there are ZERO viruses, adware, spyware for OS X.

Gotta spread the word people!

The update, not against a 'virus' that had been announced recently that broke 64-bit apps was and is down to a mistake in the compiling of the update, nothing more nothing less.

No-one has said that Apple are invincible and don't make errors, to err is human.

Apple aren't the only one's to have borked an update, I play a well known role play game and a recent patch for that borked the game for its Linux version.

The only difference is that Windows has been borked for it's entire life since release way back in the early 90's. Still to this day with all those updates/patches and supposed fixes Windows is still borked!

I like the conspiracy theory that M$ in their public releases of security flaws is to ensure that someone/group takes advantage of that and thus keep the Windows using pundits as a captured market. Kinda reminds me of a scene out of one of the Bond movies 'of course it is bugged so much so that we'll have customers paying to update for years'.

You know if that is theory ever comes fact there'll be quite a lot of embaressed heads of government that have placed hacking and such on the statute book and thus made it a criminal act.

zupchuck, stick your barely coherent post in your rear.

Too bad Macintosh computers "are no good for business; they're only good for artsy types". - Knuckle-heads!

How is having your entire organization shut down at the will of some pimply, cyber-punk "good for business"? Is MS Windows really a "good business decision"? Idiots!

For those of you not on Bill Gates payroll, not afraid of change and are willing to use the grey matter between your ears constructively, go get a MAC.

Ah, Rock on Steve

sear,
You illustrate zupchuck's post to a "T"

Why can't the government implement something as simple as a Cisco 501 PIX. That should help solve most of your internet worm problems. If you just have people connecting to the internet, not running mail or a website behind it, its ready to go right out of the box. If you are, follow the directions of the web based (any browser that has java support) configration wizard and its up, or just look it up on the web. It only costs $399 for 10 users, or $699 for unlimited.

Need a webserver:

Allow port 80 inbound to a webserver 192.50.123.1

/-- create access-list to allow inbound traffic
PIX(config)# access-list inbound permit tcp any interface outside eq 80
/-- create static port map to redirect web traffic to inside host
PIX(config)# static (inside,outside) tcp interface www 192.50.123.1 www netmask 255.255.255.255
/-- apply the access-list to the outside interface
PIX(config)# access-group inbound in interface outside

Done!

Got that here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Firewalls/Q_21263953.html

I'm sure if you need mail, change it from 80 to port 25, or www to smtp.

Check out the Microsoft zealots taking great umbrage to the column. What a bunch of bozos.

It just really sting when people point out how other OSs have ZERO problem with such threats that come out daily for WIndows.

Pity the fools...

Suicidal Gingerbread Man - ROFLMAO!! :D

luke (assuming that's your real name), 'T' is for one thing: Triumph. As in, 'I Triumphed over you'. Or, 'You've just been Triumphed'. Yeh-hehessssss. So don't use the 'T' too loosely, okay?

Oh, and don't help zupchuck. He can defend himself. I used to party with him and his cousin svomit when we were younger and let me tell you, he can hold his own. Except when he's hurling, that is. Yeh-hessss.

Come onnnnn, you all know you like it. We're all Mac users, so everyone here loves this story -- except iDon't the Wonder Nerd, that is. Well, you know what they say about Patchers who post on Mac sites: Stupid is as stupid does.

Come onnnnnnn -- I kid de Gump-alikes!