[AGL] Safari dont need to work--neither does Dave

[Frances Morey]

Congratulations on entering the realm of retirement. I am celebrating one year of it--positively giddy with self-satisfaction, having survived.
  Best,
  Frances

"J. David Moriaty" <moriaty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  Thanks to those of you who have voiced your mistaken faith in my Mac 
expertise. Actually, it is been over a year since I last taught (I'm 
retired, dudes) and that means any expertizee is dead meat.

There aren't any anti-virus programs for Mac OS X because it doesn't 
need any, so far.

What many PC people don't understand is Mac system X doesn't have any 
spyware, virus, or keylogging problems (unless you are using a work 
computer where keylogging has been installed with the company's 
permission) because of the clever Mac keychain.

This security feature requires your consent for any execution programs 
that get installed, then assigns them an encrypted code. It changes 
this randomly, and every time you turn on your computer it compares the 
keychain's list with any programs that try to boot. Even if the code is 
hacked, the program lists won't match.

Here's how it works:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/security/

If the keychain catches something that doesn't match, or a duplicate 
program, it shuts it down. If you get a couple of unexplained shutdowns 
in a row (very rare, once a year or less) you go to utilities and run a 
disk check that fixes the keychain, printing a blow-by-blow description 
of what it's doing while it's doing it. Foreign programs like 
RealPlayer seem to feature prominently in these fixes.

Apple automatically updates its security features via internet. I 
haven't a clue as to how they keep these updates secure.

j.dave



 
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