Greetings,
I was at the same John DeTroye seminar. I believe his assertion was there were no viruses in the wild for the mac os. In my opinion, just more classic Apple spin. One of these days they will get bitten. Until then, spin away Apple.
Have a good day,
Chuck
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>Well said. I agree completely.
>
>I recently went to a seminar in which the Apple rep, John DeTroye, made
>the assertion that there are no exploits for OS X and never have been. A
>visit to Secunia or other sources of vulnerabilities clearly proves that
>assertion wrong, but the that did not stop the company making that
>assertion to potential and existing customers.
>
>Charles Profitt
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>> If you come away from this discussion with one lesson, let it be that
>> you better be prepared to patch things yourself. Apple has mislead
>> the newbies into thinking that everything is covered for them. It
>> isn't. My recommendation is: start reading those O'Reilly books and
>> really understand what's going on under the hood. You can't expect
>> vendors to bail you out every time.
>
>...although vendors who are not Apple did in fact bail their users out
>this
>time. Apple stands essentially alone in *not* bothering to patch this
>gaping
>vulnerability. And if I wanted to compile my own software every time I
>needed an update, I'd use Fedora.
>
>> Having said that, I still have a sober appreciation for what Apple
>> brings to the table and take advantage of it whenever possible.
>
>I just cancelled plans to order two more Xserves for Internet-facing
>applications, and am ordering two Dell 2950s instead, with plans to
>replace
>Mac OS X Server with Red Hat Enterprise in any location that faces the
>Internet. Apple's track record of not updating their open-source
>components
>is bad enough, but when they can't be bothered to fix a security hole TWO
>WEEKS after the source code complete with fixes is publicly available--
>well, that's flat unacceptable. I'll still use Xserves for AFP and OD
>masters, but Apple's current ostrich attitude is a demonstration that it's
>foolish to trust their products outside the firewall. IMHO, of course.
>--
>Dave Pooser, ACSA
>Manager of Information Services
>Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com
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