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

Date	2015-10-07 12:20 -0600
From	GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.freeware, comp.sys.mac.system, 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
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On 10/05/15 21:57, nom de plume wrote:
> On 2015-10-06, nospam<nospam@nospam.invalid>  wrote:
>> In article<D2388F7A.5EE6D%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>, Snit
>> <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>>> So, on the mac, if I wanted to remove an app, and all of its config
>>>>> files along with it, what would I need to do?
>>>>
>>>> drag to trash.
>>>> empty trash.
>>>
>>> But the plist is left!
>>
>> who cares. it takes up so little space that it can be ignored.
>
> except that now when you install the app again, your old settings are
> there and you may have wanted them gone. In fact that might be the
> reason a user deleted the app in the first place.
>
> Seriously, the Mac is so lame you don't have a built in option to
> destroy the config files you app installs? Doesn't sound like a clean
> way to deal with packages to me. Leaving shit all over the place even
> after it was deleted. lamer OS.
>
Heh.  You sure have a lot of straw on the floor from beating that 
strawman to death.  LOL!!!


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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-07 12:20 -0600
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