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We are getting a screen indicating that there are 71 items that need attention as part of an Apple Security Alert. The screen indicates that it is part of Apple Security Center. It asks to click ok to remove the offending objects (virus, malware). Is this legitimate apple software or will it introduce a virus?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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 😀
Hardly "trolling" when I'm stating facts.
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.
And the thing they all have in common is the user initiates it. Just proving that Windows is just as secure as OS X.
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!
Which website were you trying to access? It happened to me yesterday while trying to go to my Yahoo Inbox (an open tab). For now, I am logging in and out every time I want to check Yahoo mail.
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.
Drakita; try the NoScript extension for Firefox. As the malware is triggered by JavaScript it should prevent you ever seeing it. (I haven't seen it yet)
Safari users can open the preferences, and under the Security tab, remove the check box on "Enable JavaScript".
is apple security center safe?
