Re: Updating and Photos app

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Updating and Photos app
Date	2017-04-30 15:14 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<emmdbaFqrt4U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <1n58saq.165r9vf13xz6rjN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <do_ray_me-B9367D.13411629042017@46.sub-75-242-165.myvzw.com> <YKcNA.54617$9T.16554@fx39.iad> <eml8huFk8npU2@mid.individual.net> <300420170058102482%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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On 2017-04-30, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <eml8huFk8npU2@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>> In that case, you can get it "from the torrents". It's out there.
>>> Not the optimum solution, but it works when nothing else does.
>> 
>> Considering that many pirated software titles are purposely infected
>> with malware and worse, that has got to be some of THE worst advice
>> I've seen posted here in a long time!
>
> and in particular, iphoto.
>
><http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/mac-malware-disguised-as-iphoto-installer/>
>   This OS X malware arrives on a system as a package purporting to be
>   an iPhoto installer.

Exactly. Downloading and installing pirated software is just begging to
have your machine compromised with whatever happens to be included,
which can be as bad as allowing some stranger full administrator-level
access to everything on your machine. Someone with root access can do
anything they want: from stealing your private information or identity,
to downloading child porn or other illegal and unsavory things, or any
number of other activities that would point authorities straight to you.
Install enough pirated software and sooner or later you're going to
learn the hard way that it's a REALLY BAD IDEA! Don't be stupid. Stay
away from it.

It's not hard at all to get Photos. iPhoto came installed on every new
Mac between from 2002 to 2015; so it's included on the original install
DVD for all of those machines. And Photos is included in macOS 10.10.3
and later, which will automatically update iPhoto to Photos during
install/setup. There's no need to resort to pirating it when it's so
readily available.  

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JR

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    Re: Updating and Photos app dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2017-04-29 13:41 +1000
      Re: Updating and Photos app dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-04-29 23:41 +1200
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        Re: Updating and Photos app dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2017-04-30 09:24 +1000
      Re: Updating and Photos app John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2017-04-29 23:21 -0400
        Re: Updating and Photos app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-29 23:25 -0400
        Re: Updating and Photos app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-30 04:46 +0000
          Re: Updating and Photos app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-30 00:58 -0400
            Re: Updating and Photos app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-30 15:14 +0000
              Re: Updating and Photos app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-30 19:08 +0000
                Re: Updating and Photos app JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-30 16:41 -0400
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                Re: Updating and Photos app JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-30 23:15 -0400
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            Re: Updating and Photos app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-01 09:52 -0400
            Re: Updating and Photos app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-01 15:32 +0000
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