Do I need additional security on my Macs above what comes out of the box?
I keep hearing conflicting reports on security issues for Macs. May I ask if I need extra security measures? And if so, which do you advise? I keep getting quarantine reports when I mail my college's network claiming my mail contains spam, I don't believe it does. Do any other students who use Macs to access NOVELL or any college network have this problem. I cannot E-mail documents to my school's account because they quarantine it.
Macs typically don't need any additional security except perhaps a hardware router to intercept ping attacks. If they quarantine your e-mail it probably is because some spammer got ahold of your e-mail and is spoofing your e-mail when they are sending spam. This is a real problem. To avoid getting on the spammer lists:
1. Never publish your e-mail address in its entirety with the @ symbol anywhere except when e-mailing friends and relatives. Posting to bulletin boards be sure your real address is not in the clear.
2. Never subscribe to online purchases mailing lists unless they have a secure server and a good privacy policy.
3. If your friends send you a mass e-mail with your address and everyone else's address visible in the header, ask them to use BCC in their mass e-mails. You never know if your address could get pilfered by another machine's virus and sent off to a spammer. Even Mac OS X has built-in BCC support and if you need to know how to enable it, we'd be glad to help you.
On the security side of things, don't use P2P software. If you want to get downloaded software, get it from reliable sites such as Macupdate, Versiontracker, Download.com that use web browser downloads. Macs typically are quite secure, though occasionally there have been exploits found, which no one has really been able to take advantage of because of the overall security. P2P software though can be a real weak point on any machine. You also don't know if the software you get on P2P is beta or actual release version and using it, you waste the bandwidth of the server you are going through which can add to possible quarantine policies.
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