is apple security center safe?

rnawky wrote:

Well let's see. Chrome has proven to be the fastest and most secure web browser on the market today.

Firefox is faster.

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20047314-12.html

Security speaking, Chrome has been holding up somewhat as well as Firefox

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-version-chrome-fixes-four-security-bugs-05 2611

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/google-chrome-hacked-with-sophisticated-explo it/8626

But then no browser is 100% safe

rnawky wrote:

Chrome does not send Google your web browsing history, so nice try.

I never said Chrome spys on people, I said the company Google does and that's a fact. So why give them the benefit of being able to spy on you if they wanted?

rnawky wrote:

Your ISP knows MUCH more about you than you think, and have access to every website you visit. Extensions such as NoScript will not stop your ISP from knowing every little detail about your web browsing history.

Yes, I know that, I do business with them, and likely the government knows too. That's fine and dandy. Get a warrant.

But all these other people, marketeers, profilers, snoops, tricksters, salespeople etc., they don't have a need to know and Google is helping these slimballs and making money at it.

Google: "We are a advertising company"

So where is the profit or purpose in issuing a free broswer (and everything else Google offers) other than eventually leveraging that to serve their main business model?

And before you say "Well if Chrome begins to spy on me, I'll use another browser" just be aware there might not be another free browser with the publics good intentions at heart.

Hi R C-R,

You might find this interesting. An IP address doesn't always tell you where the hosting server is located. When I first started my business, I used 1&1, namely because they were the cheapest I found at the time. While I had no issues using them to host my web site, I couldn't send emails to my two main clients. They kept getting rejected.

Turned out 1&1's IP addresses are leased to them by their German parent company. So even though 1&1's servers are on the east coast of the U.S., an IP trace declares them as being in Germany. A lot of spam comes from that particular range, so my clients had set their mail servers to block anything from there.

I had to switch to a web hosting company that was not only in the U.S., but had their own servers and local IP addresses.

Thomas A Reed wrote:

ds, you're arguing with a troll. Don't respond to him seriously or you risk giving him the appearance of validity.

Yea he's kind at new at trolling too, I see that. 🙂

Should I tell him where he needs to improve?

Ah, forget it, let him get banned from a few dozen websites, serve him right for trying 😀

You do realize that's how all Windows "viruses" are, right?

NataliePortmanNude.jpeg.exe? Sure!

You clearly don't know what the difference between a virus, worm and Trojan are. What you give as an example would be a Trojan. It can't do a darn thing until a user is dumb enough to double click the file.

It also certainly doesn't help that Windows is so incredibly stupid to only show what follows the first period in a file name by default. Like the rest of it doesn't exist.

A virus, once started, spreads by itself with no interaction required from you. If you're going to state "facts", maybe you should actually learn a few of them.

Just proving that Windows is just as secure as OS X.

Sure, just like all of those email viruses that only require that you open the email to launch the attached virus. You don't even have to click on the attachment itself.

Or very hard to remove garbage that downloads and installs itself in Windows without you even touching a single link or item from a loaded website.

Oh yeah, real secure. When you have an argument you can actually defend with FACTS, let us know.

Kurt Lang wrote:

Hi R C-R,

You might find this interesting. An IP address doesn't always tell you where the hosting server is located.

Not only that, many if not most of the most popular web sites these days load content from any number of servers the web site owner doesn't control, & not just for ads or other stuff users would prefer not to see. Companies like Akamai provide services that speed up web surfing, reduce latency, & keep the big 'pipes' that most of the Internet traffic would otherwise have to run on from being overloaded by maintaining local servers all over the world.

IP range blocking isn't really an effective solution to anything other than making the web harder to use.

not just for ads or other stuff users would prefer not to see.

That I knew. Like the ever obnoxious DoubleClick and other ad pushing vendors. Hadn't heard of Akamai though, or the kind of service they do. Makes complete sense to break up that work so local hubs don't all have to hold and serve the same information.

By some estimates, Akamai's local serves once supplied as much as 25% of the large file traffic on the web on any given day. A lot of images & other large files for apple.com & discussions.apple.com used to come from Akamai -- you could see this in Safari's Activity window -- but recently none of it seems to. I assume this is because Apple has moved everything to its own server farms, like the new ½ million sq. ft. giant in North Carolina.

It still does here

discussions.apple.com. 1095 IN CNAME discussions.apple.com.edgekey.net.

discussions.apple.com.edgekey.net. 19426 IN CNAME e4233.b.akamaiedge.net.

e4233.b.akamaiedge.net. 20 IN A 95.101.85.54

I just received the same "apple Security Center' asking me to allow a malware scan on my iMac. I had never heard of this, so I checked it out and saw the posting that this is a Trojan horse itself. this did pop up on my FIREFOX (lastest version), so look out!

For everyone's information: it has changed names several times already; for now, I've decided I am not trusting anything that says either "Apple security center" or Mac-Defender/Protector/Guard/or whatever. And although it's been on several different sites, the major ones "infiltrated" appear to be Hotmail, Google Images, and now Yahoo.

It's good to be prepared when online in general, but especially those websites.

Except, with NoScript you have to be careful which sites you allow. Once you allow a site, you've enabled JavaScript for that site and you're just as vulnerable as running without NoScript, at least for this thing.

babowa wrote:

And although it's been on several different sites, the major ones "infiltrated" appear to be Hotmail, Google Images, and now Yahoo.

It's good to be prepared when online in general, but especially those websites.

It isn't exactly "on" those sites but it might as well be. You can search Apple Support Communities with the phrase "SEO poisoning" to find several posts that explain how it works, but the bottom line is any web page that might show the results of a popular search term (even if you didn't do the search yourself) might include links to the bogus pages containing the Javascript that try to download the malware.

That includes links in advertisements,"related topics" lists, & so on -- anything that might use one of the major search providers like Google or Yahoo to add content to the page.

I understand that; in my case, I moved the cursor from this site (somewhere on one of these threads) across/up to the left to my Yahoo Inbox tab (logged in), so I really don't think I hit any ads on the way. I had logged in earlier and have always left my Inbox open/available in a tab; next tab is another web based email account, third tab is ASC.

Yes; my workflow is: launch Firefox (completely empty page = home page); first tab: sign in at Yahoo Mail/go to Inbox and leave that open for future checks; next tab: another web based email account (that is where I get all my Apple email notifications; third tab: sign in to ASC and then leave whatever page I'm on open.

Aside from doing other things (and usually having a few other tabs open temporarily), I will come back to those three tabs several times throughout the day, checking for new content here and new emails at Yahoo or my other account.

The only time I encounter ads on these three is at Yahoo, but that Inbox wasn't open at that point - I was on ASC and hitting the tab for the Yahoo Inbox. And, it was too early in the day for me to have gone to any other sites yet.