Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Updating and Photos app Date: 30 Apr 2017 15:14:50 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <1n58saq.165r9vf13xz6rjN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <300420170058102482%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net y07cRUbRH0s8rFhc1Jx4oga5D7DwOnyFhr5pKVRf/v+DeE5DDo Cancel-Lock: sha1:ebp/m4TBMmTtxBU4ztJaVjTqQ5A= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:105907 On 2017-04-30, nospam wrote: > In article , Jolly Roger > 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. > > > 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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR