Only if you're willing to treat "clicking on a link in a web page" as "possibly unsafe".
Well, that depends. Is it possibly unsafe? I don't mean to be a smart ass, but if browsing is risky, then do it with a user account designed for taking risks. It's trivial to set up, and with fast user switching there's nothing to it. It's just like rolling in another desktop.
You can say that Apple needs to fix this, and of course they do, but that doesn't mean there's not another vulnerability lurking. If people are trying to do bad things to you on the internet, well then when you get on it take some precautions.
Oh, so it will just erase all of my 100s of hours of work but not the reinstallable OS?
Nor any other user's work. In fact, if you make a user just for possibly unsafe stuff you're pretty well protected. And with fast user switching it's a breeze.
I think this headline highlights a trend I've been seeing in which internet news agencies create misleading or incorrect headlines just to get people to click on them.
Yeah, because if the headline said "New clues to a 250m-year-old murder," I'd think "Oh big deal. Get back to me when you have a 2 billion year old one."
Who dubbed this thing a Trojan Horse? Trojan Horses do not wipe out Home folders... they only sit dormant and collect information. I think it was a virus
Two things there, chief: You don't know what a trojan horse is and you don't know what a virus is. Lemme enlighten youse:
A Trojan Horse is something that appears benign, but has evil lurking inside. Ya see, there supposedly was this war, and Greece was having a tough time of it, so after a long siege they rolled up to the gates of Troy a huge wooden horse - a "gift" to their worthy adversary. After having put up this tremendous defense, the Trojans see this horse outside and say to themselves "Hey, we ARE great! And now even the great Greece is acknowledging it with this beautiful gift!" After some debate about what to do, they said "Let's being it inside! Yeah!" And so they did. That night the Greeks hiding inside the horse slipped out and opened the gates. It was curtains for the Trojans, and a metaphor was born.
So you can see that a Trojan Horse does not "sit there and collect information." It does whatever bad things the creator wants it to, and the disguise is what gets it inside your gates..er, firewall.
A virus is a piece of code that attaches itself to other programs, replicates, and may or may not do other bad things. It does not masquerade as something good, it tries to go unnoticed, at least at first.
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They still slam you into the fridge, but you see it coming.
I don't think you have the proper grasp of what freedom actually is.
Well, there was this hot little number last night, and lemme tell ya, I left her wanting!... wait a minute, that's not right.
Not yet, but I will if exploits start appearing in the wild.
Seems more like... pay an extra five dollars and the drinks are five dollars.
Too late: Zooble.com
For sufficiently small values of never, anyway.
Well, that depends. Is it possibly unsafe? I don't mean to be a smart ass, but if browsing is risky, then do it with a user account designed for taking risks. It's trivial to set up, and with fast user switching there's nothing to it. It's just like rolling in another desktop.
You can say that Apple needs to fix this, and of course they do, but that doesn't mean there's not another vulnerability lurking. If people are trying to do bad things to you on the internet, well then when you get on it take some precautions.
I think you can. Find a .help file, right-click, open with..., navigate to chess app, click check-box "always open with."
But maybe I misunderstood.
Nor any other user's work. In fact, if you make a user just for possibly unsafe stuff you're pretty well protected. And with fast user switching it's a breeze.
Pretty good. How about "virtually always..." ?
Heck of a lot.
Yeah, because if the headline said "New clues to a 250m-year-old murder," I'd think "Oh big deal. Get back to me when you have a 2 billion year old one."
You're right.
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Truth or the lack of it has nothing to do with trollishness.
Tough to do, considering that it most likely never actually happened.
I guess so. I think they're starting to slip a bit on the benign appearance part, though.
Two things there, chief: You don't know what a trojan horse is and you don't know what a virus is. Lemme enlighten youse:
A Trojan Horse is something that appears benign, but has evil lurking inside. Ya see, there supposedly was this war, and Greece was having a tough time of it, so after a long siege they rolled up to the gates of Troy a huge wooden horse - a "gift" to their worthy adversary. After having put up this tremendous defense, the Trojans see this horse outside and say to themselves "Hey, we ARE great! And now even the great Greece is acknowledging it with this beautiful gift!" After some debate about what to do, they said "Let's being it inside! Yeah!" And so they did. That night the Greeks hiding inside the horse slipped out and opened the gates. It was curtains for the Trojans, and a metaphor was born.
So you can see that a Trojan Horse does not "sit there and collect information." It does whatever bad things the creator wants it to, and the disguise is what gets it inside your gates..er, firewall.
A virus is a piece of code that attaches itself to other programs, replicates, and may or may not do other bad things. It does not masquerade as something good, it tries to go unnoticed, at least at first.
(I wonder if they even could...)
Apparently it is now.
I believe Apple actually includes that with the computer.
Based on what? It's not emulating the OS, it's emulating the processor.
I'm not sure you no what you're talking about.
OS X, for one.