[Ham-Mac] Norton's Systemworks 3.0 and Tiger

[Thomas Haddon]

Wes,

Of course it's perverse.  But evil exists.

I'm glad to hear from all of you that no viruses exist (yet).  Still,  
some do exist which attack email accounts such as Outlook - so I'm  
happy to stay away from Microsoft products as much as I can.  I guess  
I assumed they existed because (1)  I saw Apple creating these  
security "updates" and (2) Virex issuing new virus update files.   
Maybe it's all a hoax to make us buy more products we don't really need.

Still, I'd rather be safe than sorry.  A funny story (not funny at  
the time):

My ex-wife once got a virus on here OS9 system.  I had warned her not  
to respond to unsolicited email from unknown  senders, but she  
ignored me (symptomatic).  Anyway, one night I was awakened at 2 am  
(she was a night owl) to find a deputy sheriff in my house peering  
over my distraught wife's shoulder at her Mac.  The virus was sending  
her perverse, nasty emails in SPANISH as it was destroying every  
other file it could find.

She had called 911!  She thought I was doing this to her, somehow (no  
I am not competent enough in Spanish to know that kind of language).   
My ex actually thought the sender was a real person.  Once I realized  
what was going on - ti became rather funny (not to my ex though).   
The deputy was bemused.  What a night.  I think the virus came from  
Columbia...

Since then, I believe anything is possible.

Tom K5VH


On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Wesley Bennett wrote:

>
> On Dec 20, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Thomas Haddon wrote:
>
>> So what anti-virus app should we use?  Virex is not supporting  
>> Tiger either - last I heard.  Or should we just depend on Apple's  
>> mysterious "security upgrades" that come out periodically.   Now,  
>> I haven't had any problems (yet) - and I still run Virex on my  
>> home computer running 10.3.9.
>>
>> I find the whole subject of anti-virus protection for the Mac  
>> unsettling because I know the damage they can do from hard  
>> experience a few years ago.  I still consider the Unix kernel  
>> structure an unknown wrt virus attacks, although so far, so  
>> good.   And next they go to an Intel chip?  What about virus  
>> attacks on that system??   Who knows....
>>
>> Damn time wasters...
>>
>> 73,
>> Tom K5VH
>
>        I've always assumed that the Mac system was immune to most  
> viruses that plague the PC world. Yet, our Mac guru at our Long  
> Island MacUser  group says it's a good idea to have an Anti-virus  
> program as insurance...And I guess like a virus in the world of  
> medicine they may learn ( hackers) to mutate some of them. I had  
> Virex at one time, but this same guru said the Norton product was  
> better.
>    It's also kind of weird that someone would spend their time  
> writing code to make viruses , just for the sake of aggravating the  
> hell out of everyone else. Kind of a perverse mind, I would say..  73
>
> Wes N2UOF
>>
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/20/05 10:27 AM, "Larry Weil" <kc1ih at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yea, stay away from anything Norton on any version of OS X.  You'de
>>>> be better off with Tech Tools.
>>>
>>> Ditto!  I had a terrible time getting rid of the old Norton and  
>>> will never
>>> EVER let anything with the name Norton be installed on my hard  
>>> drive again.
>>>
>>> Just one opinion.  There are probably others that think Norton is  
>>> the
>>> greatest.
>>>
>>> Dick AA5VU
>>>
>>>
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