Blue Screen of Death.....

[thedreampolice]

Relic, you need to call me so I can explain this stuff.

"Well it HAD been up to date until midnight apparently , then it hadnt been renewed so I got torpedoed."

No there are new virus's out everyday and Norton needs to update everyday to know what new ones to look for. If you don't update all the time (everyday) you will get a virus. When your yearly subscriptions runs out you simply don't get the updates but the protection keeps working. So with norton you have to pay every year for the daily updates.

That being said I have never had a virus on a mac

"going to mac would only help you so far, if you still do things carelessly, clicking shit, installing shit, etc. shit an infected excel sheet will bring down both o/s if shared and distributed"

?? Give me a good example of this actually happening.


ha ha but it agree it is all on you!

Also dont use internet explorer for the love of god, use Firefox, Chrome or Safari, Something else!

 

[7thangel]

macros. learned about them in school

a simple google search gives a some info, here's just a few

http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1862027
http://stason.org/TULARC/os-macinto...-0-How-many-viruses-affect-the-Macintosh.html
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/macosxleap.html (check the side timeline)

macros are a real fuck over which is why you need to scan shit, even if they're not as prevalent anymore(?)

 

[thedreampolice]

Give me a real world example of that being a problem. I helped run a network of over 400 macs with uptime of years and no viruss, you turn on a windows pc and hook up to the Internet you can get a virus. Also macros are a good thing and most mac users that I know of use iWork not ms office anyway, all those viruss you mentioned take so much user interaction that you almost have to work to get them. Sorry macs are way mire secure than a windows box. Have you used a mac for a long length of time? Ie months and months?

 

[7thangel]

yeah i have. and i'll also add that i haven't gotten a virus on pc either. but at what point did i say that macs, unix based, linux, whatever, were less secure than a win pc? and most things (spyware, trojans, etc) need user action even on a win pc
asking me for real world examples of people i know, really? i'm not a IT pro or some comp security person and i don't go around asking people i know whether they have a virus or trojan on their computer.

but a quick google search, take it for what it's worth, it's no skin off my back

http://blog.louisgray.com/2008/08/i-got-mac-os-x-virus-and-infected.html
http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-47479.html
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-258641.html

 

[thedreampolice]

Its all good, I just disagreed with this statement.

"shit an infected excel sheet will bring down both o/s if shared and distributed"

Point is the Blaster worm for example just needs windows to connect to the internet no user interaction required.

For real I would even go so far as to say if you are a mac user click and download whatever you want and you will be fine. The OS is built in such a way that even if someone got a virus it could not effect the entire OS. Not trying to start a fight or anything but there still has not been a real mac virus that spreads like even the simplest of PC virus's. I have never ever once heard of a mac user getting a real virus. Even the articles you provided are very theoretical and never made it in to the real world. UNIX, Linux, Mac handle user accounts and shared permissions properly windows does not. Windows also has things like the registry and a reliance on internet explorer that makes the OS inherently venerable.

 

[Relic]

Yeah I need to call you Chris, I got it back and although it works all the stuff I had installed in it is no longer there because they had to wipe the drive I guess.
They made a back up and put it in a folder on the desktop , but I dont think without boot disks and all that, that its going to make a difference that I have an "Audacity" shortcut in siad folder but the actual program no longer exsists in the folder.
Likewise for a BUNCH of shit I had, not the least of which was the rar program , microsoft word, some memory accelerators registry optimisers and shit like that .....
SOOOooooo, its a mixed blessing, I almost had the memory maxed out anyway with an ass of shit I didnt need but somehow couldnt see getting rid of so Im glad lots of that is gone.
BUT, some things , like ableton live and reason and Acid and other shit are now in a state of "flux"..lol

Additionally anytime we go online now and say have windows explorer open and then click windows closed I have noticed, the CPU just maxes the F out and freezes and there is nothing to do but to restart.