Re-install Mac OSX without DVD drive

[bobspud]

Never had a trojan so it must be all that porn you are downloading..

Do you ever bother to watch the out bound traffic from your machines? It dumb ***** like you that cause all manner of trouble. A decent Trojan isn't there to make your life hard it's there to use your resources and do others bidding.

Taking an OSX disk and swapping out a few binaries is kids play.
Now wait for a dumb twat like you to install it and you have a ready made bot node that dials home and waits for instructions.

Bet you haven't bothered to hash check the OS binaries in you hooky ISO?

Who's a ******???

[Ignis Fatuus]

Careful there. He's running 10.5 so he'd need an upgrade to 10.6 first. Furthermore, upgrading to Lion might break various apps and peripheral drivers. Lion dropped Rosetta, which provided support for PPC (non-Intel) apps.

Yes. I loved 10.5, it did all I want. I could live with 10.6. But 10.7 has me keeping a Windows PC on my desk for some purposes

[russell]

Do you ever bother to watch the out bound traffic from your machines? It dumb ***** like you that cause all manner of trouble. A decent Trojan isn't there to make your life hard it's there to use your resources and do others bidding.

Taking an OSX disk and swapping out a few binaries is kids play.
Now wait for a dumb twat like you to install it and you have a ready made bot node that dials home and waits for instructions.

Bet you haven't bothered to hash check the OS binaries in you hooky ISO?

Who's a ******???

Think you've been using Windows too long, take the tin foil hat off you freak of nature. The big corps love gullible idiots like you who bend over and hand their credit card details because you believe their stories about hackers installing trojans in everything not purchased through them. Twat

[d000hg]

Take your spat elsewhere please

So another question I meant to ask - if I'm upgrading is it daft not to go to the newest OS version, given I will use the Mac for development (C++ iPad apps) and web browsing, and don't have any existing apps that need to work? Is 10.7 more resource hungry (this is a 4-year-old MacBook) at all, or more locked down for development, etc?

[stek]

Take your spat elsewhere please

So another question I meant to ask - if I'm upgrading is it daft not to go to the newest OS version, given I will use the Mac for development (C++ iPad apps) and web browsing, and don't have any existing apps that need to work? Is 10.7 more resource hungry (this is a 4-year-old MacBook) at all, or more locked down for development, etc?

I found 10.7 faster on my 2007 iMac which I had then. I see 10.7 and indeed 10.8 as evolutions - each seems to get faster on same hardware.

[Spacecadet]

Think you've been using Windows too long, take the tin foil hat off you freak of nature. The big corps love gullible idiots like you who bend over and hand their credit card details because you believe their stories about hackers installing trojans in everything not purchased through them. Twat

You just described Apples justification for iTunes and the AppStore

[Sysman]

I found 10.7 faster on my 2007 iMac which I had then. I see 10.7 and indeed 10.8 as evolutions - each seems to get faster on same hardware.

I've found the same on every version since 10.1. The next major OS version on the same hardware has been faster and more reliable, and on at least one occasion speed ups have come with maintenance releases.

[bobspud]

Think you've been using Windows too long, take the tin foil hat off you freak of nature. The big corps love gullible idiots like you who bend over and hand their credit card details because you believe their stories about hackers installing trojans in everything not purchased through them. Twat

No I was a qualified sun / linux engineer for 12 years before I hung my hat up and went into architecture. Your misunderstanding of how a unix distribution is put together is staggeringly retarded. You apparently write code for a living personally I think you should probably sit in a corner with a dunces hat.

A lot of work has gone into OSX Lion to make it a difficult attack target, and in general a BSD environment its a pain in the arse to hack because unlike system V the emphasis is on secure coding. However if I take a binary within /usr/sbin and modify it, and then set a startup script to auto start a socket with that modded binary. When you download the modified ISO image I don't have to hack you anymore. The modified binary can run with root privs straight off I don't need to get through a firewall or elevate my privs any more because your laptop or server will come and find my bot controller using an https session or something else that my firewall has no reason to stop, and because the session is established inside to out the firewall is peirced.

You don't pickup software unless you know and trust where it is coming from. Especially in an environment where you are taking your own tools into a client and anyone can tamper with the code and compile it...

If you want to see what I am talking about

New Linux Distro Promoted as Anonymous-OS | threatpost

Mac users are the perfect target for tulip like this because the prevalence is we don't need no stinkin antivirus we are safe. and most mac heads are completely unaware that they run unix....

[russell]

No I was a qualified sun / linux engineer for 12 years before I hung my hat up and went into architecture. Your misunderstanding of how a unix distribution is put together is staggeringly retarded. You apparently write code for a living personally I think you should probably sit in a corner with a dunces hat.

A lot of work has gone into OSX Lion to make it a difficult attack target, and in general a BSD environment its a pain in the arse to hack because unlike system V the emphasis is on secure coding. However if I take a binary within /usr/sbin and modify it, and then set a startup script to auto start a socket with that modded binary. When you download the modified ISO image I don't have to hack you anymore. The modified binary can run with root privs straight off I don't need to get through a firewall or elevate my privs any more because your laptop or server will come and find my bot controller using an https session or something else that my firewall has no reason to stop, and because the session is established inside to out the firewall is peirced.

You don't pickup software unless you know and trust where it is coming from. Especially in an environment where you are taking your own tools into a client and anyone can tamper with the code and compile it...

If you want to see what I am talking about

New Linux Distro Promoted as Anonymous-OS | threatpost

Mac users are the perfect target for tulip like this because the prevalence is we don't need no stinkin antivirus we are safe. and most mac heads are completely unaware that they run unix....

who do you trust?, unless you go through every piece of source code line by line then compile it yourself you can never be sure. Look at Sony with their root kit. I'm willing to take the risk, I won't just download anything, but I have good sources that I trust and check always check using my own tools.

[d000hg]

How do you check you dodgy OS hasn't been tampered with? If you don't run Mac AV you wouldn't even know if it was done well.