Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit 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: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:42:14 -0700 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5tmdnY_rbLLTfY7LnZ2dnUU7-U-dnZ2d@supernews.com> <4OidndaWf9wpmYnLnZ2dnUU7-V-dnZ2d@supernews.com> <061020151355559863%nospam@nospam.invalid> <061020152226490090%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4uhsLQykFTIsbW1HokL6qQbAKNM8E9cOIFcNAQXPDLKIX+RO9S Cancel-Lock: sha1:a2dnccRdHeFvXY3btHNjokLg8fc= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Thread-Index: AdEEsL9CRErGXtYHvkWt0AWfR89U8w== Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:83188 alt.comp.freeware:246138 alt.hacker:9165 alt.privacy.anon-server:46363 comp.os.linux.advocacy:326285 On 10/11/15, 10:19 PM, in article d80u64Fn0q7U2@mid.individual.net, "Jolly Roger" wrote: > Snit wrote: >> On 10/11/15, 9:47 PM, in article mvfe18$n28$2@news.albasani.net, "Nobody" >> wrote: >> >>> On 10/6/2015 10:50 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>> nospam wrote: >>>>> In article , Snit >>>>> 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. -- * OS X / Linux: What is a file? * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu: * Mint KDE working with folders: * Mint KDE creating files: * Mint KDE help: * Mint KDE general navigation: * Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs? * Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux: * OS / Word Processor Comparison: