New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2162
Do you supose someone else's position of ignorance would be better? :D
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Not quite. The recent iChat virus also had a conventional "app-infection" vector. It was a virus if anything was.
No. It's been done, and nothing special was required to do it.
It is far more profitable.
Daniel Johnson Guffaw! And who might that be? It wasn't a virus. It was social engineering... or phishing. Again, you are spewing FUD here. Oh, care to provide proof? Profitable? How? Let's say it...
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Those are slight exaggerations of the facts, but close enough, I think, to require explaination.
Yet there are simple, obvious explainations that require no invisible magic pixie dust in OS X.
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I expect you have not seen this happen on either OS X or Unix; you really have to pound.
Indeed, in the case of OS X, there's little question that this is a nonproblem. Not all design flaws *matter* in all cases, after all.
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I are! but it's MCSE, and it was a long time ago; I got certified for Windows 3.0.
I do hope posterity will forgive me. :D
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I know. Yet it is quite true.
I can't speak to Rago. But a long time ago this was not true; the original few versions of Unix ran on machines without MMUs and they actually made real, true copies of the process at fork() time. Perhaps Rago's book is very old.
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Oh, you mean you quoted the *name* of the book. My mistake.
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