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[blackcross]

Dan, you are promoting some common errors: The Mac month of bugs found 4 bugs not 30 as hinted. Also Dai Zovi did not declare Macs to be less secure than Vista, he said Vista security coding was better. Vista is still mostly NT and XP code with a pretty face.Conversely anyone who declares Macs invulnerable just has his/her head in the sand. better than xp? certainly. better than Vista? no one knows yet.

[ItsaMario]

"Myth 16: It is easier and more enjoyable to read an article on six separate pages than it is on one or two."

[ZenMaster]

The other weakness of eBay's fraud coverage is that it's only valid for 6 months after your purchase, which can be a problem with magazine subscriptions bought through eBay. To file a fraud claim with eBay, you must do so within 45 days of your purchase. However, because magazine subscriptions can take months to start, if someone rips you off by not delivering on a subscription that you bought, you're basically screwed because the 45 day limit has long since passed.

[ZenMaster]

[quote name='ZenMaster']The other weakness of eBay's fraud coverage is that it's only valid for 6 months after your purchase . . .Sorry for the typo -- I meant to say of course, that it's only valid for 45 days, not 6 months.

[Harmonic7]

[quote name='ItsaMario']"Myth 16: It is easier and more enjoyable to read an article on six separate pages than it is on one or two." Sounds like a solid 5/5 on the ol' Bogus Meter to me! :wink:

[LarryV]

[quote name='blackcross']The Mac month of bugs found 4 bugs not 30 as hinted. Also Dai Zovi did not declare Macs to be less secure than Vista, he said Vista security coding was better. Vista is still mostly NT and XP code with a pretty face.As blackcross pointed out, how many times are people going to say the same wrong things over and over?- Most of the MOAB "bugs" were in third-party Mac software, not in the operating system.- Dai Zovi won by using a local, client-side exploit. He did not "remotely hijack" the Mac. It's still a problem (at least, it was until Apple patched the vulnerability), but speaking of remote exploits is just presenting the situation in a false light.- What Dai Zovi said was that from what he'd seen, he felt that there was higher code quality in Vista's new code, with regards to security. I should hope that Vista's new code would be comparable to Mac OS X Tiger's several-year-old code. There is still all the legacy code to be worried about.

[mjd420nova]

E-Bay is hacked and they don't care. I started a bank account specifically for use on E-bay and some how the account number got hacked from their site and used to force a fraudulent charge in Florida. The charge was forced because their was a zero balance in the account so the supposed retailer had to force the charge. I closed the account and now use only POSTAL Money Orders.

[dantynan]

I feel like I'm living in some alternate universe than blackcross and larry v. it's like that episode in star trek with the evil spock. the question is, which one of us is wearing the goatee? here are my responses:1. the month of bugs: I'm looking at the web site for this project. I count 30 vulnerabilities listed, one each day, most of them with proof of concepts attached. true, not all affect the Mac OS, but that's not what I said. and if you're a mac user, does it really make a difference to you whether your computer was attacked via ichat or quicktime instead of OS X? 2. dino dai zovi: here's what he said, in that computerworld interview:Q. From your research on both platforms, is there a winner between Mac OS X 10.4 and Vista on security? A. I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4.maybe dino believes an OS with inferior security code isn't more vulnerable. it seems unlikely, though.3. re remotely attacking the mac. it's true, dai zovi's exploit wasn't a remote hijacking. that was wrong. however, unless I'm misreading Apple's own security advisory, the exploit could certainly lead to depositing a remote access trojan on a mac's hard drive. QuickTime 7.1.6 Update CVE-ID: CVE-2007-2175 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4 Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to arbitrary code executionin short: the item was about the Mac's vulnerability to malware. I think the answer to that one is pretty clear. everything else is just nit picking.cheers,dt (with or without goatee)

[gundark]

[quote name='ItsaMario']"Myth 16: It is easier and more enjoyable to read an article on six separate pages than it is on one or two."You hit the nail on the head.I always select the "print" icon at the bottom of the article so I can read it all on one screen. The only drawback to this is that the links image links in the article never seem to work.

[gastroboy]

I've been running Mac OSX for 7 years. No viruses, spyware or adware. EVER.I used my old G4 as a protective router for my PC, again no problems on the PC.When I stopped using the PC and gave it to my kids for games, I took it off the G4 and connected it directly to my broadband router. In 6 weeks it was screwed with 739 virii and plagued with adware and spyware.Nuff said, but I am so grateful for your sympathetic thoughts as to my plight using OSX, now that Vista is out.I take it all your PC problems are gone now! ..and I'll have 10,000 times as much problems once I get Leopard in October. Actually it could be a million or gadzillion times as much. After all we are multiplying ZERO.

[shister]

I couldn't read the other comments about eBay but one was to lose $ is if PayPay says, "yes, you should get a refund because of fraud but the seller's PayPal account isn't funded". This means they have already paid the seller and yoy're out of luck. A way to clooect is to call your credit card company and dispute the charge. You will win.

[greenhawk46]

[quote name='ItsaMario']"Myth 16: It is easier and more enjoyable to read an article on six separate pages than it is on one or two."I agree-really maddening to read a story so badly broken up, since I'm ignoring all the ads, anyway-thanks for finally posting a complaint about it

[chartguy]

The cell phone story is still developing. Long-term users (over 10 years) are more likely to have brain tumors on the side of their head that they use the phone on. http://www.telegraph...5/nmobile25.xml

[roye]

Myth7:I must say that i have found noticeable performance improvement on my systems after i started defragmenting my drives ( 2 partitions ) regularly. Inteerstingly i use the very defragger mentioned here, Diskeeper. (2007 with invisitasking) Whether its a normal task such as burning a CD or using multiple applications, there is a significant difference when the drives are fragmented and not. Perhaps, each individual's defragging requirements vary, but i benefit from this maintenance task.

[MasterChief]

Myth # 7 is not a myth! If you use your PC for any serious work, you WILL find HDD I/O performance degrade over time from fragmentation of files. In my case, I do heavy photo and video recording and editing on my PC, frequently creating and deleting large video files. After a few days, it takes much longer to load a video file, and sometimes even jerky playback that was not previously present. Cleaning up temporary files recycle bins and running Diskeeper to defragment the files, and one boot-time defragmentaton run brings the PC back to its normal performance state. Come on, it ain't rocket science...if the read/write head has to wander all over the platter looking for small bits of a large file, it WILL take more time than if it was reading the same file arranged in a contiguous manner!!!! So keep a good defrag software like diskeeper handy, it is really useful.

[itproandteacher]

[quote name='ItsaMario']"Myth 16: It is easier and more enjoyable to read an article on six separate pages than it is on one or two.":D Awesome! I love getting the info in these articles, but it would be so much more enjoyable to have the option of reading these without all the distracting ads with workable links. But, that's nitpicking the ability of seeking, then finding and reading great content for free on-line.

[wolfram]

Think about my plight with a Windows box: not one vir-ware in the past ten years. I only know about the effects of viruses by looking at dumb folks' PCs... the kind that clicks on what seems to be a pop-up webcam with a LIVE whatever.

Virus creators etc. want to have their fun and money, and if people are stupid, they'll have it. It's stupidity that attracts viruses, not the OS. If Macs are better hardened (I use the term loosely) against attacks, the guys making them are assuming that those who use the Macs are stupider than those who use PCs. In fact, this has some backing: if the user were smart, why should it Just Work?

Get the drift, mate? No? I don't blame you, really. You'd expect this post to just work in your brain, which it isn't doing.