Re: [fsug-tvm] Apple virus

2012-04-16 Thread Dhananjay Balan
Hi, On 15 April 2012 08:49, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Now that Apple computers also are found to be susceptible to virus attacks, GNU/Linux machines remain the only ones not affected yet. But I do not agree to the view that GNU/Linux machines are not affected

Re: [fsug-tvm] Apple virus

2012-04-16 Thread Dhananjay Balan
Hi, On 16 April 2012 07:38, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 19:11 +0530, Roshan P Koshy wrote: It is the java-jre target malware.. if u r unning the unpatched jre in GNU/Linux, then it is probablity of infection..Note that the number of infections are one

Re: [fsug-tvm] Apple virus

2012-04-15 Thread Roshan P Koshy
It is the java-jre target malware.. if u r unning the unpatched jre in GNU/Linux, then it is probablity of infection..Note that the number of infections are one percent of total mac systems. it is due to these are not patching jre.. -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged

Re: [fsug-tvm] Apple virus

2012-04-15 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 19:11 +0530, Roshan P Koshy wrote: It is the java-jre target malware.. if u r unning the unpatched jre in GNU/Linux, then it is probablity of infection..Note that the number of infections are one percent of total mac systems. it is due to these are not patching jre..

[fsug-tvm] Apple virus

2012-04-14 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
Dear friends, Now that Apple computers also are found to be susceptible to virus attacks, GNU/Linux machines remain the only ones not affected yet. But for how long? Considering that Mac OSX is based on BSD, how long will it take for someone to write viruses for GNU/Linux? I am sure that when it