Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

[Dave G4UGM]

Are you 100 % sure you don't need anti-malware...

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/08/05/apple-to-patch-actively-exploited-privilege-escalation-bug-in-os-x-10105---report

from what I have seen the fix from Apple isn't a fix...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/22/os_x_root_hole/

but to run SUID. Of course as you know from Facebook I am not a MAC expert, but I do know that if a product has as many lines of code in it as OS X it will have bugs and security holes...

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam
> Proven
> Sent: 18 September 2015 17:17
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]
> 
> On 18 September 2015 at 16:55, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> > CryptoLocker has been around for a year.  I don't think that McAfee
> > nor AVG see it.  "Well, it's not a VIRUS, . . ."
> 
> 
> Former AVG employee here. I quit; this is not an official statement.
> 
> CryptoLocker/CryptoWall/etc are *not* a single program. It's a whole family
> of them. The programs are constantly modified so that the anti-malware
> doesn't pick them up until it's too late. Antimalware mostly still uses
> signature databases for identification, plus hooks for suspicious activity.
> Cryptolocker is not infectious, so it doesn't perform canonical suspicious
> activities. It opens lots of user data files but so do indexing tools from
> Windows Search to Google Desktop to Copernic.
> 
> However, Cryptolocker et al spread by fooling users into running something
> they shouldn't run. I'm sorry, but you got suckered.
> 
> Me, I only use Windows if someone pays me to. Life is too short otherwise.
> My desktop is a Mac (and before that was a Hackintosh); my laptops run
> Ubuntu. Both are much *much* less work and I don't need to run
> antimalware.
> 
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