Re: mac trojan in-the-wild

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Thursday, November 01, 2007 16:42:51 -0500 reepex <reepex () gmail com> 
wrote:

> On Nov 1, 2007 4:34 PM, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
>
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> Yes, today, the average level of clue among Mac users is probably a
> shade higher than amongst Windows users,
>
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>   Is this a joke? The reason people switch to macs is because they cannot
> handle simple tasks. Isnt the main thing said by new mac users is 'it
> just works' meaning 'I couldnt figure out windows' . The main users of
> macs are liberal arts students and hippies .. and we all know the
> technical level of these people.
You apparently haven't been around Macs recently.  *Many* technical people, 
*especially* Unix and security admins, have started using Macs because they 
provide all the functionality of Unix with a beautiful GUI on top.

Besides, I'll put the technical prowess of a liberal arts major up against 
the technical prowess of a computer science major *any* day, and spot them 
two full months to study.  CS majors can code like monkeys, but they don't 
have a clue how a computer works.  :-)

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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