Messages In This Digest (6 Messages)
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- Re: Mac & Parallels From: Harry Flaxman
- 1b.
- Re: Mac & Parallels From: Randy B. Singer
- 1c.
- Re: Mac & Parallels From: Jim Showalter
- 2.
- Re: [macsupport] OT: Screed about Steve Jobs From: talk@signifydesign.com
- 3a.
- Re: OT: Screed about Steve Jobs From: N.A. Nada
- 4a.
- Re: iCloud issue From: Otto Nikolaus
Messages
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Re: Mac & Parallels
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:00 pm (PDT)
On 10/26/2011 7:55 PM, Jim Showalter wrote:
> Speaking only from my own personal experience, when I ran Win XP on a PC without an AV it was violated within 3 minutes of booting. Clean up, reboot, violated again. I currently run Win XP under Parallels on OSX without any AV on the Win side and just do not have any issues. YMMV.
Back in the 'early' Win XP days, I had read an article that all this
tech jounralist had to do was connect the net to his machine, and he
detected 'hundreds' of attempts of intrusion, within a minute. He did
nothing with the computer, it was idle. I tend to believe him based
upon some of the logs I've seen in OS X. Fortunately, no break ins
occur, in this instance. When one switches to 'stealth' mode in the
firewall preferences, these log entries of attempted connections
disappear, or so I've found.
Good to be vigilant no matter what. Granted that these attempted
attacks may be targeted at windows machines, there is still generic
malware, not to mention the 'manned' attempts, out there.
Harry
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Re: Mac & Parallels
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:48 pm (PDT)
On Oct 26, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Jim Showalter wrote:
> I seriously question whether you need any Win AV if you are only
> running Win on a Mac using one of the virtual support apps.
>
> Mac OSX has a great firewall that should do most of the protecting.
Firewalls, by and large, don't protect you from viruses and other
malware AT ALL. They protect you from hackers. Most firewalls don't
look at the code of the software that passes through them at all.
It is true that if you run Windows on your Mac that, depending on
what you are using Windows for, you have a reduced or possibly even
non-existent need for AV software.
By far the largest vectors for the nasties that a PC can get are
either via e-mail or the
Web. If you don't use Windows to access the Internet, or for e-mail
(and there is no need to, since there are excellent Macintosh
programs for this), you have cut off just about all of the avenues
through which you can acquire a Windows infection.
Now, if you are also careful about
what you install on your Windows partition from other external sources
(i.e. don't share files with non-protected Windows PC's via flash
drive), you can completely avoid any Windows malware.
I've been running Parallels/Windows for a bunch of years now, with no
Windows anti-virus software installed, and I have yet to encounter any
malware at all. But I only use Windows to occasionally run a couple
of mission-critical applications now and then. I don't surf the Web
using Windows, I don't do e-mail from Windows, and I don't share
files with other Windows users.
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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Re: Mac & Parallels
Posted by: "Jim Showalter" jshowalt@mindspring.com jshowalt94127
Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:18 pm (PDT)
Thanks, Randy, for describing my experience much better than I had tried to do.
On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Jim Showalter wrote:
>
>> I seriously question whether you need any Win AV if you are only
>> running Win on a Mac using one of the virtual support apps.
>>
>> Mac OSX has a great firewall that should do most of the protecting.
>
>
> Firewalls, by and large, don't protect you from viruses and other
> malware AT ALL. They protect you from hackers. Most firewalls don't
> look at the code of the software that passes through them at all.
>
> It is true that if you run Windows on your Mac that, depending on
> what you are using Windows for, you have a reduced or possibly even
> non-existent need for AV software.
>
> By far the largest vectors for the nasties that a PC can get are
> either via e-mail or the
> Web. If you don't use Windows to access the Internet, or for e-mail
> (and there is no need to, since there are excellent Macintosh
> programs for this), you have cut off just about all of the avenues
> through which you can acquire a Windows infection.
>
> Now, if you are also careful about
> what you install on your Windows partition from other external sources
> (i.e. don't share files with non-protected Windows PC's via flash
> drive), you can completely avoid any Windows malware.
>
> I've been running Parallels/Windows for a bunch of years now, with no
> Windows anti-virus software installed, and I have yet to encounter any
> malware at all. But I only use Windows to occasionally run a couple
> of mission-critical applications now and then. I don't surf the Web
> using Windows, I don't do e-mail from Windows, and I don't share
> files with other Windows users.
>
> _____________________ _________ _________ ____
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
>
> Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
> http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
> _____________________ _________ _________ ____
>
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Re: [macsupport] OT: Screed about Steve Jobs
Posted by: "talk@signifydesign.com" talk@signifydesign.com ojosabroso
Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:22 pm (PDT)
I also found myself getting into it with a friend, who shared an anti-Jobs blog post on her Facebook page. The writer dismissed Jobs as "just a capitalist," and said, in effect, that since Gates had established a giant foundation, Jobs's work meant nothing in comparison. While I agreed that anyone who finds colossal proserity should do something significant, I tried to point out that Gates is a bigger capitalist, and that it was a kind of robber baron career that earned him such wealth. Somehow that point never got acknowledged.
Steve did not have a uniformly wonderful personality, but his inventions have contributed a lot to humanity.
Thanks for the comments you posted,
Nicky
Nicky McCatty
signify Design
fusing image & information
617.308.0266
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From: "Harry Flaxman" <harry.flaxman@comcast.net >
Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 09:43
Subject: [macsupport] OT: Screed about Steve Jobs
To: <macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. >com
On 10/26/2011 8:41 AM, hester reik wrote:
> Today's NY times has a horrible harangue about Jobs by the ever nasty
> Maureen Dowd. I was so po'ed I wrote a LTE. It lies below
>
> To the Editor:
>> > Ms. Dowd's op-ed piece in today's paper was unusually nasty, even for her.
>> > What was the point in publishing such a diatribe? Mr. Jobs was a terribly
>> > flawed human being, like every other one on the face of the earth. His
>> > enormous contributions makes his imperfections more poignant and tragic,
>> > especially since they might have shortened his incredibly productive life.
>> >
>> > The nits Ms. Dowd picks highlight her own skewed perspective as well as
>> > doing your paper a huge disservice.
>> >
Well said Hester!
Thank you. I will go and read the 'article' now and write a comment or
'letter to the editor' pertaining to it. I'm sure it's nasty enough,
considering the source!
Harry
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Re: OT: Screed about Steve Jobs
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:35 pm (PDT)
Thanks Hester, otherwise I would have missed the article.
I already knew about most of the items mentioned in the article. Even with his dark side, I admire what the man did professionally.
The article was one-sided, but to my knowledge, it was not inaccurate. The man was a genius, but not a saint.
It is like John Travolta or Steve McQueen. Both are good actors, but I don't care for one's religion/belief system, and the other beat the women in his life. It did not stop either from being very good at their profession.
Brent
On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:41 AM, hester reik wrote:
> Today's NY times has a horrible harangue about Jobs by the ever nasty
> Maureen Dowd. I was so po'ed I wrote a LTE. It lies below
>
> To the Editor:
> > Ms. Dowd's op-ed piece in today's paper was unusually nasty, even for her.
> > What was the point in publishing such a diatribe? Mr. Jobs was a terribly
> > flawed human being, like every other one on the face of the earth. His
> > enormous contributions makes his imperfections more poignant and tragic,
> > especially since they might have shortened his incredibly productive life.
> >
> > The nits Ms. Dowd picks highlight her own skewed perspective as well as
> > doing your paper a huge disservice.
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Re: iCloud issue
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:39 am (PDT)
I would make a separate backup of my contacts ASAP. (And also do regular
backups of everything that matters, but that's another matter.)
Otto
On 26 October 2011 21:19, Bill Boulware <bill.boulware@gmail.com > wrote:
> Turn contacts off then back on in iCloud control panel should re-download
> them.
>
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