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OT-Any new Mac viruses out there?
Our IT guy asked me today if I had about any new Mac viruses lately. I told him that I haven’t heard of anything new offhand. He replied that he had “heard” that there we a lot of them popping lately and was concerned about not having virus protection on the Macs. Bad,bad,bad! We must have it! Bad Mac-boy!
Anyhow, he doesn’t recall just where he’d “heard” this, but it must be true afterall?
Anyone have any news on the subject?
Just wondering if it may be possible or whether it’s just more PC Paranoia in action.
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Nope, nothing new.
And anything out there that’s “old” are thing that you’d have to download and run. Nothing that could catch you by surprise, in other words.
Here’s 4 steps to take:
1) Download wisely. Don’t run mystery programs from untrusted sites.
2) Turn on your Firewall in System Preferences
3) Find the advanced section of the firewall that enables “Stealth Mode” and turn it on
4) Go into Safari preferences and turn OFF the feature that runs downloaded programs automaticallyThat’s pretty much it. You should be perfecly fine if you follow those 4 rules.
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Well, I thought this one goes without saying, but I figured I’d better say it, just in case:
5) Set Apple’s online updater to run once a week and install any security updates that it finds each week.
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Always pays to be careful, but as I understand it there are some proof of concept viruses that have been patched, but none actually out there in the wild.
Maybe your IT guy is falling for MS BS
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IT guys in a mac world are like Maytag repairmen in those old commercials. Bored.
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Yep, they are a paranoid bunch. No doubt about it. All of them Mac haters.
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[Tom Matthies] “All of them Mac haters.”
Any guesses on who writes the first Mac virus?
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“Anyhow, he doesn’t recall just where he’d “heard” this, but it must be true afterall? ”
No credible source… no source…
Unless he can back it up, who cares.
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