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

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Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
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On 10/11/15, 10:19 PM, in article d80u64Fn0q7U2@mid.individual.net, "Jolly
Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>> On 10/11/15, 9:47 PM, in article mvfe18$n28$2@news.albasani.net, "Nobody"
>> <nobody@invalid.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/6/2015 10:50 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> In article <D239CE3D.5F37E%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>, Snit
>>>>> <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you cannot find it by name, open the Preferences folder and sort by
>>>>>> date
>>>>>> modified. If you are looking to toss the preferences of a program quit it
>>>>>> and then look at the top few.
>>>>> 
>>>>> or just use spotlight to search for the relevant files and let the
>>>>> computer do the work *for* you.
>>>> 
>>>> Exactly.
>>> 
>>> Gee, I wish I had a Mac so I could be trashing preferences files too...
>>> looking for them sounds like lots of fun...
>>> 
>> When do you think you would need to?
> 
> The fact is you rarely if ever do. Lame trolls.

In working with Macs since 1987 or so I have seen it work a few times. With
the newer OS X, though, the preferences are cached and it does very
little... and they are less likely to go corrupt. He is working with old
data.


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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-11 23:47 -0500
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-11 22:11 -0700
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 05:19 +0000
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-11 22:42 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-12 05:49 -0500
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 16:14 +0000

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