http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7071017.stm

And Maccers think Windows is insecure!?

Yeah, but who wants to hack a Mac? All you'd find is someone's crappy home iMovies and GarageBand circlejerks. Also, it's not like there's any wild viruses for Mac

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Yeah, but who wants to hack a Mac? All you'd find is someone's crappy home iMovies and GarageBand circlejerks. Also, it's not like there's any wild viruses for Mac

Macs seized by porn Trojan

Cool. I didn't know you could get porn on a Mac.

It's not really a good "trojan", seeing you haffto enter in an admin username and password.

Kev, VLC + torrents = wank paradise.

Mac is pretty-much the best operation system around, altough I still prefer Linux. (Has more apps and is free!)

@TiJay - you are sooo.. wrong

@Bean0 - So what, can you count the trojans for Windows?

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And Maccers think Windows is insecure!?

Where does it say Macs are incompatible with firewalls? It says they get turned off when installing Leopard. Not nearly the same thing is it?

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@TiJay - you are sooo.. wrong

Hehe, quite possibly. Mac stereotypes are fun though.

Quote from wien :

Where does it say Macs are incompatible with firewalls? It says they get turned off when installing Leopard. Not nearly the same thing is it?

Yours is a good point. I was going to use the title "Mac Leopard incompatible with anyone who has any damn sense at all because it exposes their computer to the internet without any restrictions and without telling them either." but it wouldn't fit.

This thread over at Ars Technica was interesting. Apparently this "security expert" from Heise Security hasn't even read the manpage for nmap and is misreading its output.

I believe though, it only does it if you "Upgrade and Install", a fresh install shouldn't. I'll test this when I Leopardify myself later.

Meh don't use (and I bet most people her don't either) a firewall on the machine I'm using as my router does it for me. Therefore I have to turn Windows firewall off when I install that, and as it's completely unnecessary it's just an annoyance.

Now what has annoyed me is running an FTP server on Leopard, the client seems to think it's passworded even if it's not. Havn't found how to fix that one yet.

meh, I have 10.3.9 and the worst thing that ever happened was that I put too 10000 files on the desktop by mistake, had to wait 3 hours for them to be copyed there and then another2 hours to delete them. :P

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I believe though, it only does it if you "Upgrade and Install", a fresh install shouldn't. I'll test this when I Leopardify myself later.

Nope! The firewall is off by default no matter what type of install you do. And even when turned on it doesn't ask whether you want to block apps phoning home...

That's fine, I have no use for a firewall anyways, becuase I never directly connect to the internet. Only through a router with no ports forwarded, so if someone gets in, have fun because you earned it.