A 700% increase in malware (yes, you read that right) is not cool for us Apple Geeks, "The McAfee report said there were 460,000 malware instances affecting the Mac OS in the fourth quarter of 2016, an over 700% jump from the previous year during the same quarter."
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Yikes! Fortunately, it sounds like it's mostly harmless, but it does serve as an early warning of the potential for things to get a bit more serious. The downside of becoming more popular...
So very true Brian.
Unfortunately, malware for Macs will become more sophisticated as each quarter passes, and those who don't have antivirus on their Macs (and no the embedded "File Quarantine" in the Mac OS isn't an antivirus) will be susceptible. Meaning, that your lovely Mac experience will turn into a nightmarish one; akin to that of Windows users.
Unfortunately, malware for Macs will become more sophisticated as each quarter passes, and those who don't have antivirus on their Macs (and no the embedded "File Quarantine" in the Mac OS isn't an antivirus) will be susceptible. Meaning, that your lovely Mac experience will turn into a nightmarish one; akin to that of Windows users.
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Meaning, that your lovely Mac experience will turn into a nightmarish one; akin to that of Windows users.
Say it ain't so!! That does it; I'm time-travelling back to the 90's... ;-)
Gone are those days James (at least for us Apple nerds).
It seems that the casual Mac user still believes that their system is impervious. =( I can't tell you how many times I've ran into people saying that they talked to Apple, or a veteran Mac user and have been told that they don't need an antivirus. By the time that I say, "File Quarantine is not an antivirus application", their eyes glaze over and my voice turns into the teacher from Peanuts. LOL. For those that listen I point them to Apple's own article HT201940, that states multiple times that it detects only known malware.
For what it's worth, I'll keep sounding the horn. ;)
It seems that the casual Mac user still believes that their system is impervious. =( I can't tell you how many times I've ran into people saying that they talked to Apple, or a veteran Mac user and have been told that they don't need an antivirus. By the time that I say, "File Quarantine is not an antivirus application", their eyes glaze over and my voice turns into the teacher from Peanuts. LOL. For those that listen I point them to Apple's own article HT201940, that states multiple times that it detects only known malware.
For what it's worth, I'll keep sounding the horn. ;)
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Ok, I'm back from the 90's now... My screen must have been about 1/4 of the resolution of my phone. Every time I connected to the internet there was a horrible squawking sound. I had less storage space than my watch does now. Speech recognition took like five tries and then you just gave up. I had to hit Command-S every 15 minutes to make sure I wasn't at risk of losing a bunch of data if my system crashed.
And you know what? I still got a Mac virus... (True story - I did find a Mac virus in the wild back in the late 90's. Fortunately, it didn't infect my system. I can't recall 100%, but I think it was detected and quarantined on a Zip disk--remember those?--before getting to me.)
And you know what? I still got a Mac virus... (True story - I did find a Mac virus in the wild back in the late 90's. Fortunately, it didn't infect my system. I can't recall 100%, but I think it was detected and quarantined on a Zip disk--remember those?--before getting to me.)
Great Scott!
Alright, that was an 80's interjection but I still used it right through the 90's (I'm a geek, so give me a break). ;)
I do remember the Zip Drive (one is lurking somewhere in my attic).
Touching upon your story, that's pretty awesome! Finding Mac malware back then would have been like finding a golden Easter egg containing Willy Wonka's golden ticket (I know it was a candy bar and not an Easter egg, lol), or the ever elusive star on the Native American's bow and arrow on the Tootsie Pop wrapping. Remember when you could turn those in for another Tootsie Pop?
During your travels did you happen to run into an old TRS-80? Besides the Apple II, I loved/hated that old monchrome beast.
All of this said, you make a good point in that malware for Macs has always been around (albeit in smaller numbers).
Now I have Huey Lewis & The News stuck in my head. Thanks Brian! Lol. Hip to be Square!
Alright, that was an 80's interjection but I still used it right through the 90's (I'm a geek, so give me a break). ;)
I do remember the Zip Drive (one is lurking somewhere in my attic).
Touching upon your story, that's pretty awesome! Finding Mac malware back then would have been like finding a golden Easter egg containing Willy Wonka's golden ticket (I know it was a candy bar and not an Easter egg, lol), or the ever elusive star on the Native American's bow and arrow on the Tootsie Pop wrapping. Remember when you could turn those in for another Tootsie Pop?
During your travels did you happen to run into an old TRS-80? Besides the Apple II, I loved/hated that old monchrome beast.
All of this said, you make a good point in that malware for Macs has always been around (albeit in smaller numbers).
Now I have Huey Lewis & The News stuck in my head. Thanks Brian! Lol. Hip to be Square!
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That's also no longer available for Office 2024.
With both you can still generate an activation challenge code from your machine, but it seems Microsoft's activation support team can't process it .
If there's anyone around who has a direct line to Redmond? Can they confirm? Otherwise it looks like this is going to be an issue for the "one or two" (I can't confirm numbers for ... well ... reasons ...) secure locations around the world that need to be air-gapped (and not just those locations that are used for <Redacted>).
With thanks to the respective posters of these questions:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29295366/No-United-States-Region-during-Windows-11-Activation.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29284908/Retail-Office-2O24-Offline-Activation-Issues-with-Win11.html
With the removal of local account setup for Windows Installer from Win 11 25H2 those of us who work in locations that do not permit connection of device to the "outside world" for security reasons (or just because we don't like the "outside world") are now also unable to activate Windows offline using telephone activation.
That's also no longer available for Office 2024.
With both you can still generate an activation challenge code from your machine, but it seems Microsoft's activation support team can't process it .
If there's anyone around who has a direct line to Redmond? Can they confirm? Otherwise it looks like this is going to be an issue for the "one or two" (I can't confirm numbers for ... well ... reasons ...) secure locations around the world that need to be air-gapped (and not just those locations that are used for <Redacted>).
With thanks to the respective posters of these questions:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29295366/No-United-States-Region-during-Windows-11-Activation.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29284908/Retail-Office-2O24-Offline-Activation-Issues-with-Win11.html
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<<Otherwise it looks like this is going to be an issue for the "one or two" (I can't confirm numbers for ... well ... reasons ...) secure locations around the world that need to be air-gapped (and not just those locations that are used for <Redacted>).>>
I would think volume licensing would be the only way to go.
Jim.
I would think volume licensing would be the only way to go.
Jim.
Maybe hold out for Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 machines?
Some Windows 10 users who can't upgrade to 11 seeing "Enrol" button and able to add ESU for Year One at no cost...
(See also: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29293410/How-to-get-Windows-10-Home-ESU-am-I-qualified.html )
UBUNTU 20.04 TERMINAL COMMANDS USEFULL FOR OPEN5GS
Linux ubuntu commands are a type of Unix command or shell procedure. They are the basic tools used to interact with Linux Open5gs platform on an individual test level. These are used to perform a variety of tasks, including displaying information about ip route files and network status of VM‘s.Example of most usefull commands are as follow;
‘sudo ip ro add default via {gateway_ipv4_address} dev {network_interface_name}’
sudo ip ro add 192.168.111 via 127.0.5
‘ip route show’ Command
Sample session:
default via 172.26.0.1 dev ens5 proto dhcp src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
10.147.164.0/24 dev incusbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.147.164.1
172.26.0.0/20 dev ens5 proto kernel scope link src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
172.26.0.1 dev ens5 proto dhcp scope link src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
172.26.0.2 dev ens5 proto dhcp scope link src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
For External Test Node route Table
‘ip r’ Command
For adding node to list
‘Route –n ‘ Command
For test Statıstıcs
‘mtr -a 192.168.1.66 8.8.8.8’ Command as follows
Sample Session:
![command output sample]()
Linux ubuntu commands are a type of Unix command or shell procedure. They are the basic tools used to interact with Linux Open5gs platform on an individual test level. These are used to perform a variety of tasks, including displaying information about ip route files and network status of VM‘s.Example of most usefull commands are as follow;
‘sudo ip ro add default via {gateway_ipv4_address} dev {network_interface_name}’
sudo ip ro add 192.168.111 via 127.0.5
‘ip route show’ Command
Sample session:
default via 172.26.0.1 dev ens5 proto dhcp src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
10.147.164.0/24 dev incusbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.147.164.1
172.26.0.0/20 dev ens5 proto kernel scope link src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
172.26.0.1 dev ens5 proto dhcp scope link src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
172.26.0.2 dev ens5 proto dhcp scope link src 172.26.7.237 metric 100
For External Test Node route Table
‘ip r’ Command
For adding node to list
‘Route –n ‘ Command
For test Statıstıcs
‘mtr -a 192.168.1.66 8.8.8.8’ Command as follows
Sample Session:
