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[Jack Rodgers]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 04:45  AM, Charles Martin wrote:

> IF they do that (roll iApp upgrades into the cost of .Mac) that would  
> be a BRILLIANT move and would surely send thousands of people  
> scurrying back to sign up. It would be WELL worth the $99 bucks at  
> that point for many.

What iApps have an upgrade cost? There is a rumor that Apple will  
charge $50 for the upgrades for iPhoto, et al but that is just a rumor,  
at least for a few more hours. Do you know something that hasn't been  
announced?

> I also got a "free" copy of Virex, which I consider practically  
> useless as there ARE no known viruses for Mac OS X -- but hey that  
> could change I suppose.

There are viruses for Unix. There are also viruses using various  
flavors of Java. There are also viruses attached to email that may  
affect other computer users. Virex caught one on my X-system. It is  
rather embarrassing for an email to appear on a list with an attached  
virus.

Here's a url for more info:  
<http://a64.g.akamai.net/7/64/2015/2002-12-24-11-41-01-300/ 
download.nai.com/products/datfiles/mac/virex7/readme.txt>

There is one new listed for Unix at  
<ftp://ftp.nai.com/virusdefs/mac/virex7/virlist.txt>

LINUX/UNIX FILE-INFECTING VIRUSES (1)
-------------------------------------
EXPLOIT-ROOTBUG


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prove.
Jack Rodgers

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