woodartist
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Wi-Fi Vulnerablities
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John From Detroit
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Don't you just love that commericial for Apple Mac's where they talk about how there are no viruses for MAC's. Well, this is not a virus, but it's interesting to note he broke into a MAC
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woodartist
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Yeah, it's interesting 
I think that no one is immune today.....I use Fireox as a browser because I got fed up with IE. However FF is now being attacked :'(
I think that no one is immune today.....I use Fireox as a browser because I got fed up with IE. However FF is now being attacked :'(
JohnSandyWhite
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??? I've never had any problems with IE. Provided the Firewall, Anti-Virus and Spamkillers are active and stay away from those sites (we all know) usually have virus' attached. You should not have any problems. I have AOL but hate it. Tried FF when I was having some download problems that I thought was the fault of IE (It wasn't). Didn't particularly like FF. I will stick with IE. Happy surfing and RV'ing.
John From Detroit
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woodartist said:Yeah, it's interesting
One of the big differences I see between FF and IE is that with IE when a vunurability is announced it's a few days of boating down De nile before a patch is released to fix it.
With FF it tends to be OPPS, here's a patch. I've seen Firefox update and grab the patch before I got to the news article describing what was just patched... Never seen IE do that, not once
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woodartist
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I use FF with Zone Alarm, AVG ( anti virus), SpyBot Search and Destroy, Adaware, etc. Never personally had a problem but know of folks who did, using IE Explorer. Even if IE was air tight, I still prefer FF. Opening pages in tabs is a real plus. As FF gets more popular I'm sure the crackers will start attacking it more. Right now MS seems to be the lightening rod .....and maybe deserved?
.....and maybe deserved?
rhmahoney
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"It looks like it wasn't AirPort Extreme but a third-party Atheros driver that was the cuprit. Thanks to the readers below for pointing that out." from:
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/2118257&mode=thread
As usual, any anti-Mac news gets wildly blown up. Wait for the follow up before posting snide comments.
I can't say anything about MAC viruses as they do not aply to Macs.
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/2118257&mode=thread
As usual, any anti-Mac news gets wildly blown up. Wait for the follow up before posting snide comments.
I can't say anything about MAC viruses as they do not aply to Macs.
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woodartist
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I posted as an FYI and not an anti-Mac post. The article also mentioned Windows could also have a problem. Macs don't get viruses???? Hmmmmm
