[X4U] Re: Parental control software for Mac?

[TjL]

...... Original Message .......
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:46:43 +0000 "Stroller" <macmonster at myrealbox.com> 
wrote:

>I have to disagree - as almost all processes are visible in Activity 
>Monitor or `top` on OS X, they're equally visible in "Task Manager" on 
>Windows (XP or 2000, you shouldn't be running other versions these 
>days). The prevalence of malicious software on Windows reflects the 
>fact that few people look in Task Manager and even fewer bother to find 
>out what each & every process on there does, in the same way that I 
>don't know or care what "SecurityAgent" or "Database Daemon", running 
>on my Mac as I type now, are doing.
>

disagree all you want, but even finding out a process' path is complicated 
in Windows Task Manager.  And even if you find it and kill it, another 
process may automatically restart it.  I've dealt with this on Windows 
machines riddled with Spyware.

Nothing compares to 'ps' and 'kill'