Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
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Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-09 12:18 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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In article <mv7qpe$5jc$1@dont-email.me>, Peter Köhlmann
<peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:

> >> You don't have the foggiest how DLL hell in windows came to pass.
> >> On what grounds do you think libs in OSX are immune to that? They aren't
> > 
> > The only time I ran across this DLL hell you keep yammering about, is
> > when ICQ chat software made their own custom lib and named it after a
> > system lib.  Real Stupid on their part.
> > But that was back in the win95 days.  But the same problem, if you think
> > it is a problem, can also affect linux in the very same way.
> > 
> 
> Bullshit. Remember the gazillion of different version MFC42.DLLs? Those 
> *are* system DLLs, provided by MS itself. In dozens of different versions. 
> Since MS *very* late loaded DLLs by *exact* version number, it happened 
> frequently that a DLL was alrerady loaded, another program needed a 
> *different* version DLL of same name and crashed
> 
> When you take into account how DynLibs are loaded in OSX, the exact same can 
> happen there too. And probably does. I would think a fair number of crashes 
> in OSX world are related to that.
> Problem is that it is difficult to diagnose. Mayber it is different now, but 
> I don't think so. When I debugged a problem some years ago, it *was* a 
> problem of wrong version DynLib

wrong.

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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-07 14:28 -0600
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-07 22:40 +0200
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-07 16:42 -0400
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-07 22:52 +0200
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-07 16:57 -0400
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Onion Knight <onionknight@linuxmail.org> - 2015-10-07 17:01 -0400
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-07 23:21 +0200
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:57 -0600
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 21:11 +0000
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:53 -0600
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-09 09:38 +0200
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-09 12:18 -0400
              Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 14:18 -0400
                Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-10-10 17:40 +1100
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 14:02 -0600
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Onion Knight <onionknight@linuxmail.org> - 2015-10-07 16:53 -0400
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:51 -0600
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-09 09:25 +0200
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-09 06:37 -0500
          Ok.  GUFFAW!!!  Satisfy you Turdv? GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 14:04 -0600
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 14:04 -0600
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-09 23:09 +0200
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 20:21 -0600

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