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

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.freeware, alt.hacker, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-10 16:16 -0700
Message-ID	<D23EEA63.5FD4A%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References	(17 earlier) <0KCdnabqC6ofhoXLnZ2dnUU7-YHus__v@bresnan.com> <091020151614556962%nospam@nospam.invalid> <04ydnYlix_Ae6IXLnZ2dnUU7-LednZ2d@bresnan.com> <D23DE3F3.5FC2B%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <zsidnS3zA48Y7oTLnZ2dnUU7-Ynus__v@bresnan.com>

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On 10/10/15, 1:22 PM, in article
zsidnS3zA48Y7oTLnZ2dnUU7-Ynus__v@bresnan.com, "GreyCloud" <cumulus@mist.com>
wrote:

> On 10/09/15 22:36, Snit wrote:
>> On 10/9/15, 7:18 PM, in article
>> 04ydnYlix_Ae6IXLnZ2dnUU7-LednZ2d@bresnan.com, "GreyCloud"<cumulus@mist.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> But that
>>>>> was a while ago before the policies changed inside the app store.
>>>>> Give it some time... someday you'll see a strange kernel panic take
>>>>> place when you really do run out of disk space.  The easiest way to find
>>>>> out how that works is to set the terminal scrollback to unlimited and
>>>>> then run a program that is in an endless loop with an error in it.
>>>>> Then boot up into console mode and clean out the largest file in the log
>>>>> file.
>>>> 
>>>> unix does not deal well when it runs out of disk space. it's a serious
>>>> bug that will never be fixed.
>>> 
>>> Well, the os did warn me that it was running out of disk space and was
>>> still running, but very slowly.  I figured it out just in time, so OS X
>>> is a bit safer than other UNIXes in this regards.
>> 
>> I have run into this warning as well.
>> 
>> 
> All one has to do is use the terminal and move to the log files and then
> look for a very large file.  Delete it.  The one I discovered was around
> 200Gb.
> 

What log file is that big?


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    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 13:54 -0600
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