[WinMac] Possible security issue for MacOS?

John W. McCarthy(jwmcmac[at]flash.net)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:25:29 -0600

A thought occurred to me as I was thinking through the solutions to
Dan's Floppyless iMac disk utilities . . . that being the security
issues involved when so many new utilities on the Mac no longer require
the extensions to be on in order to operate and can run without any
pieces being active in the system folder.

We all know how susceptible the Wintel OS is to attack from viruses and marauders.

Perhaps the Mac has been partially spared due to the fact that it was
difficult to do anything with it on-the-fly so to speak. Most of the
time you would have to reboot after an installation, extensions had to
be on . . . it just seems that the System was difficult to take-over
from the outside looking in.

To the degree that the new utilities are eliminating these MacOS
difficulties, we may be seeing more and more marauders breaking into our
stalwart system in the future.

Sure seems like viruses and marauders follow MS applications around
wherever they go and they are currently going Mac.

Heck MS apps self-install and self-repair now . . . modify that just a
little . . . no, don't.

Certainly I hope these thoughts have no basis.

GODBlessUsAll

Pat Kelly McCarthy

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