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thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
 Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 07:08:11
Ok, i've just about had enough of viruses on pcs. My sister goes to school on saturday, before my family is home, she's calling us saying, "i've got a virus". OK, no problem, we fixed that and now she has another!!! Our pcs at church are all infected with something and the secretary is emailing me in a panic not knowing what to do. Of course i give the apple propaganda and say buy a mac, but thanks to my father, the Micro-poops-in-their-pants-soft nazi that he is, installs a finical software that isn't compatible with macs, besides VPC which is way too much for the secretary to figure out. For some reason the church listens to him about computer issues and yet he can never fix anything, it gives him the typical IT ego and that comes with the shiny sticker that says "don't know SH*T". If my dad calls my drive a c: again, i'm going to urinate all over his dull. i'm about to pull my hair out.
What's the deal with viruses and the mac? I know that there are little and *nix is a beast for security, but if there aren't any why is apple offering virus scan software with .mac, or is that just a ploy for the mindless victims of an apple marketing strategy? I'm so pissed off right now. I guess my sister is backing up what she can to my mac along with the church. Sometimes it sucks to have the superior machine and have to deal with this stress... what am i saying!?
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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 07:34:41
In 15 years of using macs, I've had one single virus infection (The Hong Kong virus in '98), yet keeping the constant virus outbreaks under control in the PC side of my office is almost a full time job for our IT guy.My gut feeling is that things aren't going to be quite so carefree under X... although I'd love to be proven wrong. Cheers!
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 08:45:07
The problem isn't the PC, it's MicroSlop's crappy product. you can get PC viruses using their email effluent under VPC on a mac. whacked emails going thru the fritter gang thru address book interconnections because of their sloppy@$$! excuse for software is really annoying.jt  ™.
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catsdorule
Senior Member
Canada
1627 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 08:56:03
Your not the only one ticked of today.-Danny Canadian Sniper Squadron 3 stars.
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 08:57:03
Its funny how the Mordersoft world touts its umpteen million different software applications, but fails to mention two ugly little facts. 1) most people use Microsoft Office for everything (which is available for the Mac). And 2) most of the rest of the "applications" are all viruses, trojan horses, adware, etc. etc.I'm glad Apple has low single digits marketshare so that virus software developers refuse to support our platform. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
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oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 11:34:23
quote:
My gut feeling is that things aren't going to be quite so carefree under X
I think they'll be even better. All of the security updates Apple has released are just updated versions of certain packages. By using SSH instead of Telnet, Apple has closed the biggest potential security hole. Now that there are file permissions (hurray!), any program can't modify system files. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
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Da Penguin
Senior Member
USA
1094 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 18:28:16
I remember reading something a ways back, when OS X was in infancy about viruses and the mac. I do believe the number TOTAL of viruses that exist for mac was around 8. And i remember the last one being a joke and saying it was a sledgehammer   OS X should keep this stability and hopefully its *nix half will not fail it. ~The Penguin | Captain, Intelligence Operations / Space Cowboy |
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 01:28:53
In the 9 years i've been using comps (9 years on Macs, 6 years on PCs), I've only ever come into contact with a virus once...on a school PC. Oh, and some dumb@$$ tried to send me a Windows virus on email even though i'm on a Mac. -------------------------- "I keep my friends close, but I keep my enemies closer" - Unkown Warrior maclover5
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viruses, what is up with that?!
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