Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The bugbear virus seems to be particularly nasty since it opens infected machines to later denial of service attacks by disabling particular ports of firewalls it discovers. System admins have also been reporting other side effects relating to printing and network operations. So if you even suspect you have this puppy get the eradicator from one of the anti-virus sites and cleanse things. I note that Microsoft released a list of serious security flaws that affect almost all Windows products. Earlier someone suggested that Macs aren't attacked because they are such a small market share - which is probably one aspect. Another, however, is that in MacOS many of the traditional ways in which Windows is exploited don't exist while in Mac OS X those exploits simply don't work since the system is installed with most exploitable paths turned off. Adam Bridge - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html