Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome? Lion?

From	Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome? Lion?
Date	2012-04-08 19:56 -0400
Organization	Ain’t No Organization Here!
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On 04-08-2012 17:40, Barry Margolin wrote:
> But if people don't follow the cookbook for installing, it's going to be
> hard to give them cookbook steps for solving problems.  The simple

True.  As a technical writer, more than once I had to explain to someone,
"It doesn't matter how good your text is; if you put a bad example next 
to it, that's what people will follow."

> My general suggestion to users who don't already have someone like me
> managing their system for them is that they should find a teenager who
> knows their way around the computer and ask them to help.

No way.  All the teenagers who have "helped" my parents have installed
"helpful" stuff that just makes things worse.  Since they didn't get a
Mac when I advised it, two of the things they do need that none of the
teens did are defragmentation and malware protection.

Finally, someone gave them a Linux with Thunderbird and FireFox icons on 
the desktop and they can finally use the thing.  (And they don't know
it isn't Mac or Windows.)

-- 
Wes Groleau

   Pat's Polemics
   http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett

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Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 09:43 -0400
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-07 08:30 -0700
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 11:46 -0400
      Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-07 09:04 -0700
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 13:59 -0400
          Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-07 18:43 -0400
            Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-07 23:01 -0400
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-07 23:26 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-08 14:14 -0400
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-08 14:12 +0200
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 16:36 -0400
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-07 12:05 -0400
      Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-07 09:07 -0700
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-04-07 22:32 -0700
          Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 23:01 +1200
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-04-07 08:59 -0700
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-07 13:56 -0400
      Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-04-07 11:18 -0700
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 10:17 +1200
          Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-07 19:53 -0400
            Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-07 23:04 -0400
              Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-07 23:40 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 16:32 +1200
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-08 14:18 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-08 17:40 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-08 19:56 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-08 22:36 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 00:32 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-09 09:21 +0200
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 11:37 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-09 14:48 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 15:33 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 21:41 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-10 17:36 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-10 23:15 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 21:42 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-09 21:37 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-10 17:35 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-10 23:19 -0400
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-11 10:40 +0200
                Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-10 17:36 -0400
        Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-08 09:07 -0400
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-07 19:05 -0400
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-08 00:24 +0100
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-08 16:32 +1200
  Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Rob Friefeld <someone@verizon.net> - 2012-04-08 10:59 -0700
    Re: Does the Flashback trojan affect Chrome?  Lion? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-09 16:26 -0400

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