OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Tue Nov 20 09:29:04 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ewing [mailto:greg_at_cosc.canterbury.ac.nz]

> Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>:

> > Of course, MAC OS may not be so virus friendly, but I don't know
> > about that.

> But even then, the virus can't jump *off* the disk onto a previously
> clean system without running something from the disk, and that won't
> happen unless you explicitly tell it to. If there's some way for that
> to happen on Windows, then Windows is definitely more virus-friendly!

There's at least one worm that takes advantage of a Quicktime feature (why
on earth did they put this in Quicktime?!) that will automatically run some
program on a volume when the volume is mounted. Don't remember the name of
this "feature," but it is akin to the windows "autorun," and just as bad.

Regards,

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
 
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