iTunes 11.0.1 on my iMac has "Hide iTunes" and "Hide Others" just like every other version of iTunes I've ever installed.
- Menu Bar -- iTunes --- Hide iTunes
I insert an audio CD or video DVD and I'm asked what I want to do with this disc...just like every other version of Mac OS X since who knows when. Have you looked at your settings here?
- System Preferences -- CDs & DVDs --- When you insert a music CD: --- When you insert a video DVD:
Actually, iTunes on Mac OS X runs a hell of a lot better than it does on Windows. Kinda like how poorly Microsoft Office runs on the Mac compared to on Windows.
No ZeroAccess?! I guess it could be argued that portions of ZeroAccess are/were designed with the BlackHole dev kit, but it blows my mind that something as sophisticated, stealth and widespread as ZeroAccess isn't on the list. The method of infection, its resilience/resistance to removal and use of the compromised workstation are pretty unique.
I'm pretty sure that a large chunk of the malware on this list did not have file infecting variants or true "viruses".
Adobe Reader and Flash were previously the largest attack vectors...Java is by far #1 and has been for the last few years. Since Sun/Oracle states "Java Runs on 3 Billion Devices" and that a large chunk of those devices will never or rarely see a patch, it has been a HUGE painted target lately.
...a poorly written Microsoft product leaves a vulnerability open for exploitation, yet it is Microsoft who provides an internal assessment and statement that Macs are "not safe from malware".
I'm on an IT committee at my church as well. We've set up an old Dell Dimension 2400 with pfSense 2.0. 3 NICs (1 on-board, 2 PCI) and set up two VLANs, one VLAN being their office LAN and the other being a Captive Portal enabled VLAN with three WRT54G WAPs loaded with Tomato.
Firewall rules were created in pfSense to prevent wireless users from accessing the office LAN and wireless segregation was enabled on the access points to prevent chatter between wireless clients (prevents infected clients from attacking potentially vulnerable clients on the same network).
pfSense has a voucher system that allows you to create several rolls of time-based vouchers. You can either give the teachers a roll of active vouchers that are only good for a certain length of time, (say, the length of the Sunday school class) or you can set pfSense scheduling to restrict all access to the Captive Portal off-hours.
You can also add MAC address exceptions to the Captive Portal instead, (not really completely secure, but keeps your average users out) limit the number of associated users and bandwidth per associated client to prevent one user from monopolizing the entire connection.
Marathon could also be played over dial-up networking or the Internet with a utility called NetLink. NetLink allowed two devices to create an AppleTalk connection between two users over dial-up. Most of the time, it was abysmally slow and caused games to go out-of-sync, but in cases where users had a good modem (14.4/28.8) on both ends, it worked pretty well.
Anvil (the Marathon editor) was provided by Bungie. I believe it permitted changing shapes, sounds and physics of the game (gravity, hit detection and damage, etc). Bungie also released Forge later on, but I never really spent much time using it as it came sometime after Marathon Infinity was released.
You could always set the WRT54GS as a wireless bridge and use pfSense 2.0 on the backend for all of the firewall, DHCP, QoS, RADIUS, etc.
You won't be upgrading to 802.11n support or GigE on the wireless end, but you could certainly use an old PC with GigE NICs in pfSense on the backend.
I currently have an old Dell Dimension 2400 configured with pfsense 2.0 and two WRT54G v.2.2 APs with Tomato in bridged mode and have no performance complaints (other than maybe the 54Mbps limitation of the actual AP)
Call it a coincidence, but the Youngstown, Ohio area has never had regular earthquakes. We'd be lucky to have a noticeable earthquake once every 2-3 years. Since fracking began in this area, we've had 7 earthquakes since March 2011! Three of those earthquakes were felt by a large number of the locals with the other 4 only going somewhat noticed.
These earthquakes are in the 2.x magnitude, causing very little to no damage, but how can these experts ignore anomalies like this?
I believe the last time Apple had any type of docking port was in the early PowerBook / PowerBook Duo days (DuoDock). You could probably think of the MacBook Air as a modern PowerBook Duo. The Duo was designed to stay light and slim by leaving all the bulky I/O and modular drives in the docking station. It would be really nice to see Apple get back to this with Thunderbolt/MacBook Air.
If people are worried about the graphics performance of a card in the external PCIe/Thunderbolt enclosure off of a MBP, it will be even worse with the MacBook Air. The Thunderbolt controller is about 1/2 the performance of that in the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and I assume the mini.
Good luck using 3G cellular as during most of these trade shows, the cell towers are taxed as well. If you're lucky enough to get data, it won't likely be fast enough to leave a good impression on customers, nor would it be reliable.
Doesn't delete the Start Menu shortcuts....it moves them into a hidden folder called smtemp in your user's Temp directory. They can be restored fairly easily if you haven't already blown away everything in that folder.
Some new variants are removing the registry key that shows the "Show Hidden Files and Folders" option from Folder Options. While re-importing the key is fairly trivial, you have to get rid of the malware first. Even better than that, they then associate any.exe file extensions with the Trojan Horse. If you remove the Trojan Horse, rundll32 asks what program you wish to launch program.exe with.
There is a really nice reg file that someone exported and threw on a website that addresses this issue and fixes the file association. Since reg files can be run without actually opening regedit, it will import if the file association is already jacked. This file is intended for XP, but will work with Vista and 7...it just throws an error that you can ignore.
Fun and games. If you stop/remove the Trojan, run the command below from a command prompt with admin privs (for Vista and 7 users...XP runs the command as admin as long as you are a user with admin privs). If the malware is still running, you may still have some time to get some of your stuff moved off if you're worried about losing it or just want to restore the box.
attrib -h/S/D C:\*.*
The malware is cleanable and the OS is repairable, believe me....but it takes a lot of work and time to understand what the malware has already done and what changes need to be reversed.
No, actually, I think it is great. Flash is a resource pig that Adobe chooses to not rewrite for mobile platforms. Android devices puke trying to use Flash with some of the larger, faster tablets having mixed results of flash content actually working as intended.
I don't see how you think that Apple has gotten more closed with the Mac/Mac OS since the PPC days. Owning a Power Mac 7200, you probably remember having to purchase special Apple RAM from manufacturers like EDGE, Kingston, etc out of the MacMall catalog. Adding generic RAM (even with similar specs) often resulted in a non-bootable Mac.
How about hard drives? Apple HDD ROMs. Yeah, good luck with getting that generic HDD from WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Quantum, etc working. (pre-PPC machines also used SCSI drives that were awesome, but pricey and hard to come by) Don't forget about proprietary ADB connectors, Apple serial ports, display ports (including that stupid display adapter needed for the Power Mac 6100/66 and similar models), Apple GeoPort (WTF?!), Mini-SCSI on the PowerBooks, Apple PlainTalk microphone ports (again, WTF?!), NuBus vs PDS slots. As of late, ADC video connector, but we'll give Apple a mulligan.
Macintosh System 9.2.2 and earlier had little PC file support with the exception of PC Exchange to read DOS/Win formatted floppies and other media. Most Mac users bought MacLinkPlus or a similar product to help them open DOS/Windows documents on the Mac. Image formats were another difficult area with Apple pushing PICT and Microsoft pushing BMP.
Apple may still have a bit of a "walled garden", but the gate is open a lot wider than it was in the 68k/PPC days.
EasyVPN is fantastic for Mac OS X Client. Makes VPNs idiot proof. Just configure passwords, set IP range and port forward the L2TP/IPSec ports.
I'm assuming that this Mac is actually running OS X Server and not Personal File Sharing on OS X Client. Would imagine EasyVPN wouldn't run on Server.
I have 6TB in RAID 5 shared out on my mini via FireWire 800 from a OWC Qx2. Love it... Originally tried a Drobo and had problems with stability of it under load.
...cause RAID 1 makes a whole lot of sense...lose half the total storage of the array to redundancy. To get 6TB, he'd pay the cost for 4x 3TB drives and only get the storage of 2. Brilliant...
Point your Hot Wheels laptop to disney.com and come back when baby is finished Mac bashing and posts something more constructive.
At the moment, it'll eat more in energy costs than what is generated in virtual currency.
Bitcoin mining anymore is mostly useless for those that aren't sporting a rig full of Radeon 5xxx cards. Would have been nice to get on the bandwagon earlier when the coins were easier to mine.
Careful clicking on that link...there is a malicious banner ad on the National Geographic website. It doesn't hit every time, but on the first click, I was redirected to a rogue AV download site where anti-malware.zip was downloaded.
The crux of the current problem is a setting in Safari that allows the computer to open"safe" documents automatically. The issue with that checkbox has been known for over a year and its one of the things I remember to do is to uncheck it (as it has been defaulted to checked, open those documents.)
Apple could have done an update to uncheck that box, or better yet remove the feature, but it sadly remained and now they are going to have to pay for thier ignorance of the issue.
Except that "open safe documents" has little to do with the issue. Who cares if it mounts the.dmg? The user is not only downloading it, they're launching the installer and progressing through the installation process, including the entry of their system username and password. If they've gotten this far, then they were certainly going to mount the.dmg in the first place.
The Mac (or any other OS for that matter) doesn't know the difference between a Trojan Horse and a copy of Photoshop. The point of a Trojan Horse is to be something that it isn't....to pretend to be safe and in reality, be malicious.
Apple's stance that Macs don't have viruses is still true (based on a technicality that Mac Defender is not a file infector). I'll be convinced that this is an issue if and when drive-by attacks begin, similar to what we see with IE and outdated plugins from Adobe and Sun on the Windows side.
Remove it every day. Even take the time to reverse changes to group policies, driver injection/infection, hijacked services and MBR (TDSS.tdl4 is the bomb!) and other fun stuff common with today's malware on the Windows platform.
Technicians that call themselves "malware experts" that rely on Spybot S&D, MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, etc to do their malware removal are NOT the experts and are simply a bunch of script kiddies looking to make a buck.
That's odd because Apple corporation isn't very liberal compared to it's PC counterparts. Of course they are all responsible for terrible manufacturing practices in China and all around the world.
Considering Apple spoke out openly against Proposition 8, I'd say they have a rather liberal slant. Apple rarely gets publicly involved in politics and I was quite surprised that they supported turning it down on the front page of their website.
Maybe I'm assuming that same-sex marriage = liberal, but I don't know too many conservatives that support it.
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...uh. Not sure if sarcasm...
iTunes 11.0.1 on my iMac has "Hide iTunes" and "Hide Others" just like every other version of iTunes I've ever installed.
- Menu Bar
-- iTunes
--- Hide iTunes
I insert an audio CD or video DVD and I'm asked what I want to do with this disc...just like every other version of Mac OS X since who knows when. Have you looked at your settings here?
- System Preferences
-- CDs & DVDs
--- When you insert a music CD:
--- When you insert a video DVD:
Actually, iTunes on Mac OS X runs a hell of a lot better than it does on Windows. Kinda like how poorly Microsoft Office runs on the Mac compared to on Windows.
No ZeroAccess?! I guess it could be argued that portions of ZeroAccess are/were designed with the BlackHole dev kit, but it blows my mind that something as sophisticated, stealth and widespread as ZeroAccess isn't on the list. The method of infection, its resilience/resistance to removal and use of the compromised workstation are pretty unique.
I'm pretty sure that a large chunk of the malware on this list did not have file infecting variants or true "viruses".
Adobe Reader and Flash were previously the largest attack vectors...Java is by far #1 and has been for the last few years. Since Sun/Oracle states "Java Runs on 3 Billion Devices" and that a large chunk of those devices will never or rarely see a patch, it has been a HUGE painted target lately.
I have yet to see a DSL provider that does not state in very small print that the connection is "burst" or "variable" or "up to".
...a poorly written Microsoft product leaves a vulnerability open for exploitation, yet it is Microsoft who provides an internal assessment and statement that Macs are "not safe from malware".
I'm on an IT committee at my church as well. We've set up an old Dell Dimension 2400 with pfSense 2.0. 3 NICs (1 on-board, 2 PCI) and set up two VLANs, one VLAN being their office LAN and the other being a Captive Portal enabled VLAN with three WRT54G WAPs loaded with Tomato.
Firewall rules were created in pfSense to prevent wireless users from accessing the office LAN and wireless segregation was enabled on the access points to prevent chatter between wireless clients (prevents infected clients from attacking potentially vulnerable clients on the same network).
pfSense has a voucher system that allows you to create several rolls of time-based vouchers. You can either give the teachers a roll of active vouchers that are only good for a certain length of time, (say, the length of the Sunday school class) or you can set pfSense scheduling to restrict all access to the Captive Portal off-hours.
You can also add MAC address exceptions to the Captive Portal instead, (not really completely secure, but keeps your average users out) limit the number of associated users and bandwidth per associated client to prevent one user from monopolizing the entire connection.
Marathon could also be played over dial-up networking or the Internet with a utility called NetLink. NetLink allowed two devices to create an AppleTalk connection between two users over dial-up. Most of the time, it was abysmally slow and caused games to go out-of-sync, but in cases where users had a good modem (14.4/28.8) on both ends, it worked pretty well.
Anvil (the Marathon editor) was provided by Bungie. I believe it permitted changing shapes, sounds and physics of the game (gravity, hit detection and damage, etc). Bungie also released Forge later on, but I never really spent much time using it as it came sometime after Marathon Infinity was released.
FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!
You could always set the WRT54GS as a wireless bridge and use pfSense 2.0 on the backend for all of the firewall, DHCP, QoS, RADIUS, etc.
You won't be upgrading to 802.11n support or GigE on the wireless end, but you could certainly use an old PC with GigE NICs in pfSense on the backend.
I currently have an old Dell Dimension 2400 configured with pfsense 2.0 and two WRT54G v.2.2 APs with Tomato in bridged mode and have no performance complaints (other than maybe the 54Mbps limitation of the actual AP)
Call it a coincidence, but the Youngstown, Ohio area has never had regular earthquakes. We'd be lucky to have a noticeable earthquake once every 2-3 years. Since fracking began in this area, we've had 7 earthquakes since March 2011! Three of those earthquakes were felt by a large number of the locals with the other 4 only going somewhat noticed.
These earthquakes are in the 2.x magnitude, causing very little to no damage, but how can these experts ignore anomalies like this?
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/geosurvey/html/eq_archv/tabid/8304/Default.aspx
Lake Erie has a lot of underground salt mining operations in place, hence why you'll see a whole lot of reports of earthquakes in the Erie area.
I believe the last time Apple had any type of docking port was in the early PowerBook / PowerBook Duo days (DuoDock). You could probably think of the MacBook Air as a modern PowerBook Duo. The Duo was designed to stay light and slim by leaving all the bulky I/O and modular drives in the docking station. It would be really nice to see Apple get back to this with Thunderbolt/MacBook Air.
If people are worried about the graphics performance of a card in the external PCIe/Thunderbolt enclosure off of a MBP, it will be even worse with the MacBook Air. The Thunderbolt controller is about 1/2 the performance of that in the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and I assume the mini.
What is this "LAN party" you speak of? Gamers getting together in one place? Sounds so 90's...
Good luck using 3G cellular as during most of these trade shows, the cell towers are taxed as well. If you're lucky enough to get data, it won't likely be fast enough to leave a good impression on customers, nor would it be reliable.
Doesn't delete the Start Menu shortcuts....it moves them into a hidden folder called smtemp in your user's Temp directory. They can be restored fairly easily if you haven't already blown away everything in that folder.
Some new variants are removing the registry key that shows the "Show Hidden Files and Folders" option from Folder Options. While re-importing the key is fairly trivial, you have to get rid of the malware first. Even better than that, they then associate any .exe file extensions with the Trojan Horse. If you remove the Trojan Horse, rundll32 asks what program you wish to launch program.exe with.
There is a really nice reg file that someone exported and threw on a website that addresses this issue and fixes the file association. Since reg files can be run without actually opening regedit, it will import if the file association is already jacked. This file is intended for XP, but will work with Vista and 7...it just throws an error that you can ignore.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/xp_exe_fix.zip
Fun and games. If you stop/remove the Trojan, run the command below from a command prompt with admin privs (for Vista and 7 users...XP runs the command as admin as long as you are a user with admin privs). If the malware is still running, you may still have some time to get some of your stuff moved off if you're worried about losing it or just want to restore the box.
attrib -h /S /D C:\*.*
The malware is cleanable and the OS is repairable, believe me....but it takes a lot of work and time to understand what the malware has already done and what changes need to be reversed.
Hope this helps someone!
No, actually, I think it is great. Flash is a resource pig that Adobe chooses to not rewrite for mobile platforms. Android devices puke trying to use Flash with some of the larger, faster tablets having mixed results of flash content actually working as intended.
I don't see how you think that Apple has gotten more closed with the Mac/Mac OS since the PPC days. Owning a Power Mac 7200, you probably remember having to purchase special Apple RAM from manufacturers like EDGE, Kingston, etc out of the MacMall catalog. Adding generic RAM (even with similar specs) often resulted in a non-bootable Mac.
How about hard drives? Apple HDD ROMs. Yeah, good luck with getting that generic HDD from WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Quantum, etc working. (pre-PPC machines also used SCSI drives that were awesome, but pricey and hard to come by) Don't forget about proprietary ADB connectors, Apple serial ports, display ports (including that stupid display adapter needed for the Power Mac 6100/66 and similar models), Apple GeoPort (WTF?!), Mini-SCSI on the PowerBooks, Apple PlainTalk microphone ports (again, WTF?!), NuBus vs PDS slots. As of late, ADC video connector, but we'll give Apple a mulligan.
Macintosh System 9.2.2 and earlier had little PC file support with the exception of PC Exchange to read DOS/Win formatted floppies and other media. Most Mac users bought MacLinkPlus or a similar product to help them open DOS/Windows documents on the Mac. Image formats were another difficult area with Apple pushing PICT and Microsoft pushing BMP.
Apple may still have a bit of a "walled garden", but the gate is open a lot wider than it was in the 68k/PPC days.
I was hoping for some new iphone ... or flash support... or SOMETHING new.
....flash support? hahahahahahahahahahahaha
EasyVPN is fantastic for Mac OS X Client. Makes VPNs idiot proof. Just configure passwords, set IP range and port forward the L2TP/IPSec ports.
I'm assuming that this Mac is actually running OS X Server and not Personal File Sharing on OS X Client. Would imagine EasyVPN wouldn't run on Server.
I have 6TB in RAID 5 shared out on my mini via FireWire 800 from a OWC Qx2. Love it... Originally tried a Drobo and had problems with stability of it under load.
...cause RAID 1 makes a whole lot of sense...lose half the total storage of the array to redundancy. To get 6TB, he'd pay the cost for 4x 3TB drives and only get the storage of 2. Brilliant...
Point your Hot Wheels laptop to disney.com and come back when baby is finished Mac bashing and posts something more constructive.
At the moment, it'll eat more in energy costs than what is generated in virtual currency.
Bitcoin mining anymore is mostly useless for those that aren't sporting a rig full of Radeon 5xxx cards. Would have been nice to get on the bandwagon earlier when the coins were easier to mine.
Careful clicking on that link...there is a malicious banner ad on the National Geographic website. It doesn't hit every time, but on the first click, I was redirected to a rogue AV download site where anti-malware.zip was downloaded.
Shameless promotion: Mac OS X, FTW!
Again, Slashdot is late to the party. This has been going on for the last month.
The malware is performing an attrib +h on all files in C:\. If you attrib -h on the whole drive, the data reappears. Magic.
The crux of the current problem is a setting in Safari that allows the computer to open"safe" documents automatically. The issue with that checkbox has been known for over a year and its one of the things I remember to do is to uncheck it (as it has been defaulted to checked, open those documents.)
Apple could have done an update to uncheck that box, or better yet remove the feature, but it sadly remained and now they are going to have to pay for thier ignorance of the issue.
Except that "open safe documents" has little to do with the issue. Who cares if it mounts the .dmg? The user is not only downloading it, they're launching the installer and progressing through the installation process, including the entry of their system username and password. If they've gotten this far, then they were certainly going to mount the .dmg in the first place.
The Mac (or any other OS for that matter) doesn't know the difference between a Trojan Horse and a copy of Photoshop. The point of a Trojan Horse is to be something that it isn't....to pretend to be safe and in reality, be malicious.
Apple's stance that Macs don't have viruses is still true (based on a technicality that Mac Defender is not a file infector). I'll be convinced that this is an issue if and when drive-by attacks begin, similar to what we see with IE and outdated plugins from Adobe and Sun on the Windows side.
Remove it every day. Even take the time to reverse changes to group policies, driver injection/infection, hijacked services and MBR (TDSS.tdl4 is the bomb!) and other fun stuff common with today's malware on the Windows platform.
Technicians that call themselves "malware experts" that rely on Spybot S&D, MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, etc to do their malware removal are NOT the experts and are simply a bunch of script kiddies looking to make a buck.
That's odd because Apple corporation isn't very liberal compared to it's PC counterparts. Of course they are all responsible for terrible manufacturing practices in China and all around the world.
Considering Apple spoke out openly against Proposition 8, I'd say they have a rather liberal slant. Apple rarely gets publicly involved in politics and I was quite surprised that they supported turning it down on the front page of their website.
Maybe I'm assuming that same-sex marriage = liberal, but I don't know too many conservatives that support it.