devilmac
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Oct 21 22:36 UTC 2006 |
With the BSD base system, apple has opened itself to numerous security holes.
For that reason, when we run the software update, many times, there are
security patches that have to be downloaded and installed. BSD base gives
us both the good and sadly, the bad. As far as viruses are concerned, when
it comes to any mac os, they are quite lucky, as there are almost none in
existance. But on the topic of security, I have an app installed called
NetBarrier by Intego. Thankfully I've installed it, or I would have been
hacked quite a few times. With the programming work I do, I have a handful
of traps that I've built into the kernal of the system just to be safe.
Again, with the BSD base system, hackers are able to hack the MacOS more
easily, where with >OS9, they had to be using a mac, and have a great deal
of knowledge, or installed a back door program from the computer itself.
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