Trijicon factory site---hacked

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Tried calling up the Trijicon factory site looking for info on their night sights---my virus software indicates that the site is trying to give my computer 2 trojan horses. Caught and deleted.
 
I use Norton Antivirus, Spyware Doctor, ZoneAlarm software firewall, and Linksys router with SPI (hardware firewall). Fortunately, I've never had a problem. This is on a homebuilt system with a P4 chip, so it's not speedy, but I don't do games, so it's not an issue.
 
It's a redirect to a fake anti-spyware page - pretends that you're infected and prompts you to download and install an ActiveX control (don't do it) in order to "clean up your system" :rolleyes:
 
Nobody makes virus's for Mac's, because nobody uses Mac's.

BTW our old Mac, ran IE just fine. I hated that piece of crap. Wife needed one for her line of work.
 
Just tried the website , and still has "security issues" . Doesn't effect me though . Only run different flavors of linux , hardware firewall , no IE .
 
One of my "tinfoil hat" theories is that viruses are created by Apple acolytes bent on disrupting Bill Gates' empire. Or maybe created by the virus detection companies themselves to keep themselves in business. Or maybe...
 
blackhawk2000 said:
Nobody makes virus's for Mac's, because nobody uses Mac's.
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Riiiight. Mac's are only for user's who know how to use apostrophe's :rolleyes:
 
I'll stay out the the Mac/anti-Mac war. I'm an old UNIX programmer, and I am just happy to be able to run FreeBSD at home. :)

The trijicon site does try to download two programs. I went ahead and downloaded them - .exe programs are not much of an issue on OS X. They are called Install2650.exe and Install115.exe. I haven't bothered disassembling them.

Mike
 
Nobody makes virus's for Mac's, because nobody uses Mac's.
Incorrect.

Let me rephrase that statement

"Nobody makes viruses for Macs because Macs are too secure"

Their operating system is far superior in security than any windows based PC, its based off of a unix system, and from what I know they won't be getting viruses now, or anytime soon regardless of how many people use it.
 
Saying that nobody makes viruses for macs because they are too obscure is goofy. Think about this, how often do you walk in and find an OpenBSD system in someone's house? You know what the number #1 OS in the world is? OpenBSD. Apple's OS X is the most beautiful hybrid underneath of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It merges the best features out of both (why freeBSD was started) and puts them under the hood.

People don't sit around on openBSD scanning for viruses constantly. Sure there are security threats. But almost all security threats in the Unix world are because you compromised your password or did something stupid. Only on windows can you actually click a button or load a URL and have a virus infect your computer.

For example on OS X you can't install ANYTHING without entering a administrator password. Same thing, if you want to do something "high-level" you have to SUDO to "God" status to do this feat. Users know this is serious. It's why the world's servers run on unix, sure there are new exploits everyday, but you know what? Rarely have I ever been to the datacenter or sat around watching the server all night because of new exploits. I do however see in Windows environment people employed to literally sit in front of the machine and watch the logs go by and be there to pull the plug when hell happened because MS with billions of dollars can't coordinate it's OSes security.

Just because Windows is so widely used it's not the OS of choice anywhere... Take silicon valley where I live, even a Microsoft offices, and huge windows companies here I'd say 90% of the employees use MacBook Pros. If they need windows they run it through VMware (right in OS X, securely sandboxed) or boot Windows on their Mac (faster machines anyway).

It's only in middle america that the idea of Mac is still "Those are the graphic arts department."

I can tell you from first hand experience, that the most elite agencies on earth are using Macs as most of their primary laptops and front end use environments often with servers being OpenBSD.

Your average desk at the pentagon is probably a Windows crappy old Dell with VMware server the user a virtual disk image. But if you go up to where it really matters, where people are doing critical things, they have Macs. The NSA, all the high-end employees (minus a few) use OS X, same for CIA, Marines, and most military agencies near the top. It's just lots of times in the field, or at your average base the nearest machine is something that most of us have long ago put in the basement as a doorstop.

Don't under estimate OS X ;-) It eats other machines for lunch, and when a spec op goes down somewhere up the chain OS X was used.
 
Best anti-virus software possible on a system originally built for Windows: Ubuntu :).

Attached is my desktop, in mid-rotation between Ubuntu/Gnome on the left and Windows XP running as a virtual machine on the right. XP has been denied Internet access so it can't get infested.
 

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You know, I've never run into that problem on my Mac.
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http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104774&article=3014515

Report Says Hackers Target Macs

The rising security threat could hurt Apple, which has long touted the security advantages of its platform.
Thursday, December 6, 2007

United Press International

Apple Inc.'s Macintosh personal computers increasingly are being targeted by malicious computer hackers, a European computer security firm said.

Over the past two years, we had found one or two pieces of malware targeting Macs, said Patrik Runald, a security researcher in the San Jose, Calif., office of F-Secure Corp. in Helsinki, Finland. Since October, we've found 100-150 variants.

The rising security threat could hurt Apple, which has long touted the security advantages of its platform over those of Microsoft Corp., whose software is a perennial hacker target, The Financial Times reported.

Also targeted are Apple's iTunes digital media players and iPhone Web-enabled multimedia cell phones, F-Secure said in a report.

Unlocking iPhone security controls, an increasingly popular activity, adds to the phones' vulnerability, the report said.

Apple would not discuss any steps it was taking to counter the growing number of attacks, The Financial Times said.

But Apple said, We take security very seriously and have a great track record for addressing vulnerabilities before they can affect users.

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That's why you keep a virus program running even when using a mac. I'm currently on an iBook G4 that has seen some of the seedier neighborhoods of the 'net-and never a problem :)

We are kinda drifting off of topic here though :p
 
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