Paging anyone with MONZ in their MSN contacts (and the muppet himself!)

If you get a message from Monz with something like "is this really
you... " and a web link to some photo gallery DO NOT go there, or if
you do, FFS do not try to "open" the image, as its a virus.



This has been a public service announcement on behalf of those smug
bastards who always wonder how other people get caught out, because
they're too clever to just "go ahead" and open a file without actually
looking at the filename first...

duh me.



And Monz, tell MSN your accounts been hacked and change your fucking
password mate!

 

http://www.apple.com/

D.

 

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150477/apple-osx-gets-first-virus

 

Interesting. The comment ..

'It's not a virus
It requires user activation via input of the administrator and is
therefore a trojan horse. It is file masquerading as something else and
does not exploit any vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. Safari warns the user
upon download of the file that it could be harmful'

.... is in line with my thinking on what constitutes a 'virus'. Plus,
opened by a non-root user, it's not going to do any damage to the
system.

But interesting, nonetheless..

D.

 

so is this:

http://www.security.itproportal.com...apple-safari-browser-vulnerability-unearthed/

the cynical bit of me wonders if this could some how be deliberate.

 

AOL, first thing this morning while I was half asleep.

 

Although not quite the correct phrase: it is, at heart, a nice piece of
FUD mongering.

 

YTC

Oh, and: http://pidgin.im/

Mind, I avoid the problem by not knowing anyone's MSN identity...

 

AOL.

If your friends only use MSN, there is also <http://www.amsn-project.net/
download.php>

 

To discredit Windows? Nah. Apple'd never stoop that low.

D.

 

darsy scribbled:

I had a Powerbook for a couple of months a while ago.

Very nice, but boring as it didn't run the software I used. Put Windows
on it but thought "why bother?" and sold it.

 

And ... http://adium.aybee.net/

D.

 

I don't do anything at all 'specialised' with mine that would require
special, 'professional' software. Mail.app, Safari, iChat, NeoOffice,
etc. Nothing exotic, except for an inordinate amount of time spent in
Terminal.

But a couple of mates do DJing and mixing, and they swear by Mac (one
jammy bastard whose parents bought him a flat, i.e. no rent to pay, just
bought one of these ... http://minilien.fr/a0k937 (quad-proc), and one
of these ... http://minilien.fr/a0k938 .. at the same fucking time).
Plus the companies that I used to teach in when working private to pay
for teacher training and which had anything to do with printing or
publishing, all used Macs.

D.

 

this is pretty much the same in the UK, but only for historical
reasons. Yes, back in the 80s and early 90s Macs were the machines to
have for DTP, but these days Quark, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Photoshop
etc. are all nigh on identical on PCs and Macs, but the publishing
firms still use Macs because all the old hands know 'em.

Note here I'm not saying "PCs are better than Macs", because there's
pretty much no difference between them these days.

 

<serious, non-inflammatory question>
Can you get The Gimp to run on Win32 ?
< />

D.

 

Don'f forget that Adobe don't offer upgrade prices across platforms. So, if
switching from Mac to PC, new licenses are needed for each seat thereby
increasing the cost quite considerably.

Quite.

 

Yes. For at least five years, now.

 

anyone remember PowWow?

I used to spend hours on that and CU-SeeMe back in the mid/late 90s.

But then I got a semblance of a life[1].

[1] albeit, obviously, one that still includes Usenet.

 

'licences' ?

Wot, you mean .. 'buy software' ?

D.

 

If I was a media type I'd buy some Adobe suite or other. I'm not so I use
GIMP.