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#1
March 4th, 2008, 09:54 PM
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| New Mac Virus! Time to fire up those antivirus apps and their definition updates. There's a new piece of malware called the Newton virus and can have a devastating effect on the Finder. Oh noes!!!!  
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#2
March 5th, 2008, 03:17 AM
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| So, wait, gizmodo is marketing this Troika artist's Virus only as a youtube video? Did they forget the article? Maybe I'm old fashioned but when there is a supposed computer virus or security article, I want it in text, not in video. At least something different. They are selling the artist, not Norton's Mac messing anti-virus suites. 
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#3
March 5th, 2008, 09:48 AM
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| I just took it kind of as a gag app, not really a virus. THat's what it seemed like to me if this "virus" were actually real. It's Gizmodo, so naturally I took it as a gag app for the Mac.
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#4
March 5th, 2008, 12:26 PM
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| Pity. So I can't even get that gag app playing with the gyro-stuff for my harddrive? It's _just_ a video? Grr...
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#5
March 5th, 2008, 01:01 PM
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#6
March 5th, 2008, 05:06 PM
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| So wait, even Norton that does use all the tricks in trying to scare the Mac users to buy their anti-viral suite doesn't have that vir.. video to download? 
__________________ MacBook Pro + Mac mini | Newton 2000 | @Work : Dell D620 & 2x20" + a lot of Macs | Workstation, VC & Fusion Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. ~ Samuel Clemens | Rants | Photos |
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#7
March 16th, 2008, 06:34 AM
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| Yeah.....................Right.. Now after watching the video: What "VIRUS" programmer will have a white studio to film it in. Plus... How will it copy the the HD without you telling it too. This is utter shite. I hate people that waste their time on this shit. The macbook's have no hardware that will determin of gravity (like the iPhone...) Rant over.
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#8
March 16th, 2008, 10:32 AM
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 Also, all of Apple's portable Macs have a motion/gravity sensor (this was introduced with the last PowerBook G4 models). This is the same tech that you find in the ThinkPad laptops. The sensor is there to detect when the laptop is falling so that it can lock the head of the hard drive to prevent damage to the platters. Programmers have taken advantage of that gravity sensor to create some interesting applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor
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