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Check out the comments: the general opinion seems to be that George Ou is spouting horsesh*t (again).

George's throroughly dishonest "stats" have been debunked George selected a handful of security advisories for Windows, and then selected every advisory he could possibly find for any software that MIGHT POSSIBLY RUN ON MAC OS. 
Not content merely to lie about what the contents of these advisories are, he took the further step of LYING about their seriousness.

George, you are a liar, and the proof of your lies is in the very links you provided. Unfortunately, your lying will work really well, convincing lots of people who erroneously think you're a journalist that their Macs are in imminent danger of being hacked via software packages that don't even exist on their systems.

Congratulations George, your methods are utterly contemptible.
I now know that you are completely untrustworthy and unreliable, and henceforth I will assume that every statement you make is false.</blockquote>

I’m inclined to agree.

Some have gone as far as to call him a “shill”, I won’t go that far- I’ll just say I don’t have much respect for his journalist standards.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/24/zdnets-george-ou-exposed-as-ignorant-microsoft-shill-zoon/

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How did I know that this post would warrant a response ;D ;D

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Hi bob3160,

ZA was certainly impressed, because the bundled their firewall now with the ask toolbar because of the “AskEraser” in it, so your postings have great impact ;D

polonus

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Because George Ou publishes flame-bait FUD? ::slight_smile:

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I have ZAAS, it includes ZA Pro fw. I can’t find any ask toolbar. I checked to see If I have the latest version, I do, 7.0.462.000. Maybe they meant they will bundle ask toolbar in the next upgrade of ZA’s fw’s.

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But you don’t need ZA to use AskEraser. just use the ask.com :slight_smile:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=19387.msg267557#msg267557

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Well I have to agree with FreeWFrank. Lots of those so called Mac flaws are for programs that are not Part of the OS.

Plus the so called $10,000 contest was a flaw in the Airport driver, in which apple worked with broadcom and produced a firmware update within a few weeks…

I see there are QuickTime flaws listed, so Lets add in the flaws for Windows Media Player since its bundled with windows.

In the end The core of Mac OS (UNIX) is secure just like linux, but its the software that you run on the OS that has the security flaws. The same holds true for Windows and any other OS.

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IE 8: On the Path to Web Standards Compliance - ACID 2 Test Pass Complete

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Ah that’s good perhaps I can give IE7 a miss completely then ;D

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MS is feeling the heat with Firefox slowly eating their Market Share and now with Safari for windows nearing release

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The Acid2 test is currently broken: I get scroll bars trying to view it. See comments (and links to a working mirror) here:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Latest_Firefox_beta_passes_Acid2_test_IE8_claims_to_pass_also/1198178648

Congrats to the MS IE team.

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Nothing wrong with the link I posted. working just fine here with both Firefox and IE. :slight_smile:
By the way, MS made the announcement at about the same time Mozilla filed their lawsuit against MS for not complying
with code in their browser.

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The Acid2 test page is broken, not your link. :wink:

I thought Opera filed the lawsuit. ???

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You may be right Frank. :-[ :-[ ;D

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Ten free security utilities you should already be using

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No access joy… Can you post your another links?

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Tech - the link works for me using Opera9.

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I can’t… something blocks these pages in my computer and I never discovered what…

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Tech don’t feel bad, I can’t access it on-line either and I own it. :cry:

Here’s your alternate:
http://bob03160.livejournal.com/

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1: Secunia Personal Software Inspector: ok.
2: OpenDNS: give up, server down from time to time to me.
3: Active Virus Shield (free anti-virus): incompatible with avast. Never tested.
4: Haute Secure: new to me. Need to learn about it.
5: GMER anti-rootkit: too advanced for my knowledge. I only use if someone else analyze the results.
6: Netcraft Toolbar: tried in the past, by Polonus’ advice. Give up.
7: File Shredder: I use Eraser.
8: CCleaner: ok.
9: PC Decrapifier: ok.
10: NoScript for Firefox: must have.

Thanks Bob.