MSN virus

[ywouldi]

Hi,

There does appear to be a virus doing the rounds on MSN, dont know what it is yet but if someone sends you a file (192kb in size) dont accept it, it sends itself automatically round your contact list.

This is actually true, not something that I have received in an email.

Ben

[g4ry13]

Information here

[markmullen]

Symantec said:

Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Easy enough answer,

[jimothy]

markmullen said:

Think different.

My mac, never had a virus, spyware, trojan, nothing.

I clean my PC every couple of days...

[einion yrth]

jimothy said:

markmullen said: Think different. My mac, never had a virus, spyware, trojan, nothing. I clean my PC every couple of days...

Or if you care about value for money defenestrate a PC and install a Linux distro.

[b17nns]

Microsoft is one big virus

[tycho]

Here we go again....

[dern]

jimothy said:

Think different. My mac, never had a virus, spyware, trojan, nothing. I clean my PC every couple of days...

Wait until the cheap mac comes out and the hackers can afford them. I can't think of any technical reason why macs should be virus proof.

Mark

[jimothy]

dern said:

Wait until the cheap mac comes out and the hackers can afford them. I can't think of any technical reason why macs should be virus proof. Mark

The OS is a lot more secure, less holes in it. Also the basis of it means that you require admin access and therefore a password to do any damage.

If windows asked for your password before a virus could install, there would be much less problems (apart from a dialog popping up every 30 seconds askking if you want to install something)

[dern]

jimothy said:

dern said: Wait until the cheap mac comes out and the hackers can afford them. I can't think of any technical reason why macs should be virus proof. Mark The OS is a lot more secure, less holes in it. Also the basis of it means that you require admin access and therefore a password to do any damage. If windows asked for your password before a virus could install, there would be much less problems (apart from a dialog popping up every 30 seconds askking if you want to install something)

As a software developer I can assure that given the focus of thousands of teenagers the holes in mac os could be found. The fact that these things afflict PCs more than macs is purely because of the availability of the equipment, the fact that the more impact their viruses have then the more kudos the writers earn and there are many more pcs than macs and finally that many of the viruses are simply copies of what someone else wrote with the names change and I imagine that because of the previous reasons I gave there are only pc viruses to copy.

If the new mac mini becomes prevelant then I'm pretty sure that you can expect some viruses to be written for it.

Mark