Bloody virus's

Thats three this week, Norton's zapped em but one was a pain to get rid of.

Look out for "vutbey.exe", its a spybot worm, and uploads your viles using the kazaa network and servers.

If yours pc seems to be working harder than usual it may be because of this.

I'd like to get my mits on someone that writes these things.

 

They're b*****ds wo doubt. Have had massive problems with worms before now. Kazaa is very dirty these days. Wouldn't go near it

 

Thats one thing that bugs me, I dont use kazaa, so where it came from I dont know.

Upto just recently I've used online banking but now I'm not sure its a good idea. Any one else have anythoughts on this.

 

There it is mate, since I first began using macs some 14 years ago I have never encountered a virus, worm, common cold or spybot.

(Gary who is using Bit Torrent and Limewire right now..)

 

They go exist iGary tm Sideshowbob, I'd not be too smug if I were you.

 

Sorry mr Rock, could you reconstruct that last sentence it doesn't make any sense, snigger.

 

He means that in actual fact there are viruses that can infect Macs, contrary to popular belief/misinformation by zealots

(though admittedly viruses for Macs seem rather rarer than ones for PC, but then given that Macs are less common than PCs then its almost a given )

 

So I suggest a mac because lets be honest there are't really any viruses, and I am a zealot?

There was a discussion on the radio the other week about how the English language has been destroyed. People saying things like 'tragedy' and 'hero' about a football matches for instance.

And according to you I am now 'a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first century who fought to the death against the Romans and who killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans'

Well stick with the PC and battle your viruses, it truely is no skin off my nose, LOL.

 

Bloody 'ell, your old mate!

 

Garyi, chill Winstonnnnnnn you're not really a zealot, I've met many worse on both sides of the PC/Mac divide!

A mac zealots comment would read 'with PCs you're *guaranteed* to get a virus, where as there is no such thing as a virus for a Mac', which is factually incorrect, where as your comment about having never actually encountering one for Macs is fair enough . I was just saying that there are in fact viruses for macs, though they are rare - where as mac zealots implicitly insist that there aren't any, something which seems to have been accepted as fact for some reason despite being untrue if one wishes to be accurate.

I think you're criticism about my apparent bastardisation of the English language is a little flawed though, forget the ancient Jewish movement for a second and actually look in a dictionary, and I think you'll find there will be an entry with regards to 'a fanatically commited person' or similar rather than just the original meaning

 

Snigger, just making a point really, the thread started about bloody viruses, I explained that I had never encountered any for mac.

In OSX there are no known viruses for mac, the most common ones to effect macs are in MS office apps.


Off the top of my head there around 19,000 viruses for PC.

I was just pointing out if you are fed up with viruses infecting your computer and therefore stopping you doing the things you want to do on your computer, consider a mac.

I have no virus protector and no firewall, imagine that kind of freedom, like walking round town naked LOL.

 

It's just a matter of time if your using p2p file sharing.

Why do Symantec produce Norton AntiVirusâ„¢ 9.0 for Macs

 

There was a mac virus a number of years ago that took advantage of the Quicktime autorun feature - it did a fair bit of damage.

I'm a mac user myself - but I do have a firewall running constantly (2 actually - one hardware based, one software based). I'm sure, sooner or later, someone somewhere will release an OSX virus, and when they do there will be a lot of once-smug faces looking rather worried.

The reason Norton (and Apple) produce mac based virus protection is no doubt due to the potential threat of this happening. Better to be prepared than put yourself at risk.

 

The only reason xNIX viruses aren't prevalent is because there just aren't enough boxes around for script kiddies to bother with. Most viruses are written by 17 year olds who've been brought up on Windows OSs and probably don't even know that xNIX OS even exist. Also they want to cause agro to people they know most of the time and 99.9% of them will have Windows.

If Linux or MACs should ever really get off the ground and take say 30% plus of the OS market each then you'll see plenty of viruses for those machines.


GTM

 

I've got nothing against macs myself. But if most people were in that postion in reality they would do far better just formatting their hardrive and installing Linux. That way they don't have to go out and pay for a new machine and keep all the advantages (of cost and compatibilty) of the PC hardware architecture and gain the defence of using a "rare" OS that will reduce their vulnerability to viruses etc.

GTM

 

Although I understand and agree the mac platform hardly offers great pickings for arsehole virus makers, you would have thought that by now, what with the ipod, and the proliferation of mac zealots like me that someone would have come up with something by now, possibly taking out the whole mac community in one hit.

My belief is Apple keep up to date with security threats and is not as full of holes as we all know Microsoft is, and therefore it is a lot more difficult to make viruses for mac. As I understand it there are freeware programmes available for PC to create Viruses very easily lol.

 

Gary, the advantage of Macs is really just that there are far less of them. Believe me, if there were as many Macs as there are PCs there'd be plenty of viruses for them and it suddenly wouldn't look nearly as secure. Also, if Macs presented as rich pickings as PCs there'd also be freeware virus kits for Macs.

Less Macs doesn't just mean fewer potential targets, it also makes spreading a virus much more difficult and slow. The success of the iPod doesn't really have any bearing. It's an Apple product that's used more with PCs than Macs.

Michael.

 

I suspect the dearth of Macs is why there appear to be no virus problems. After all most current viruses seem to pass my Win 98 PC by!

Bob