Macs and viruses

[Gerald Wolczanski]

NSA has a link which details how to make your computer more secure.
Years ago, when I was using a Mac (I use Linux now), the NSA
recommendations for the Mac OSX appeared to installed by default.  I
don't know about modern Mac's.

See:
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml


I went through the list of NSA's recommended security suggestions for my
Linux machine (I'm running Linux MINT, a variant of Ubuntu) and found
very few of NSA's suggestions to be implemented by default (suggested
during installation).  Indeed, while I'm reasonable comfortable with the
command line interface, many of NSA's suggestions are based on Red Hat
Linux....and for me to attempt to implement these suggestions, I'd be
getting in over my head pretty quickly.

There are variants of Red Hat, Fedora comes to mind, and I don't know
how much of NSA's recommendations they recommend/suggest at
installation.

BTW, I switched to Linux because Mr. Jobs reached his hand into my
pocket one too many times.  I upgraded Quicktime, per the pop-up, and
after doing so, I found I lost some functionality, which cost me $29.95
to get back.  I built this machine and never looked back.  I recently
completely rebuilt my OS and installed new software.  Cost = $0.00.

The best way to recycle an old PC:  Install Linux.

Jerry W
KI4IO
Warrenton

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 10:48 -0400, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
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