News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
One of the benefits of using a virtualisation program such as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop to run Windows on your Mac is that anything bad that happened to Windows would only happen to Windows. So even if your Windows virtual machine wound up infected by a destructive piece of malware, you didn’t need to worry about that malware damaging your OS X files. (There’s a possible exception: shared folders that were writable inside the Windows virtual machine. But that’s another story.)
Rob Griffiths | Apr 17, 2009
Intego, makers of VirusBarrier and other security software for the Macintosh, issued a security alert for Mac users on Thursday, advising them about the existence of a new Trojan Horse, which they’ve named OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. This new Trojan Horse can be found in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork ‘09 application suite, which has been downloaded over 20,000 times, according to Intego’s numbers.
Rob Griffiths | Jan 23, 2009
Monday’s release of OS X 10.5.6 included a number of updates that fix bugs, improve security, and in some cases, add new (or bring back) functionality to the Mac operating system. Apple detailed many of these changes in its official release notes.
Rob Griffiths | Dec 16, 2008
If your Mac has multiple bootable disks—via either a partitioned internal disk or external FireWire drives—you’re probably very familiar with the Startup Disk System Preferences panel. The Startup Manager allows you to override the default boot disk and choose another to boot from for the current session—but doing this won’t change the default boot disk. What if you want to permanently start booting from the selected volume?
Rob Griffiths | Oct 8, 2008
In a Worldwide Developers Conference keynote dominated by iPhone news, Steve Jobs did offer bit of OS X-centric news to attendees: The next version of OS X is code-named Snow Leopard. But that’s all Apple disclosed about the new OS during the hour-and-44-minute keynote. Jobs said more information would be available during the conference’s afternoon OS X State of the Union session; however, like every WWDC session save for the keynote, that discussion is held away from the public eye with its contents covered by a non-disclosure agreement that prevents attendees from talking about what they’re told.
Rob Griffiths | Jun 10, 2008
As mentioned in the lead news item, a new piece of OS X malware has been discovered.
Rob Griffiths | Nov 22, 2007
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
