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"DHCP Release and Renew" in your router settings if you have a dynamic IP address. Change the MAC address if it has banned your computer but others in the household still work.

That's a good read but it's only looking at Email attachments. "Virus"(all encompassing) writters don't target the Linux or Mac OS with email attachments because they know how hard that is, as this article shows. And hands down, the homogenous applications on Windows hurt before they are patched. But they are using internet browsers to run scripts that allow them to gain access to and run in root. This way the "social engineering" part is also the same easy process across the board: a website link from a friend, an accidental click, or even a mistyped url.

Contest link: http://www.theregister.com/2007/04/20/pwn-2-own_winner/ 30 minute hack: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Mac-OS-X-hacked-under-30-minutes/0,130061744,139241748,00.htm Future problems: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Ancient-flaws-leave-OS-X-vulnerable-/0,130061744,139234678,00.htm The last two links are stories related to gaining access to and running with root control. Just google Mac vulnerabilities or something like that, there's plenty more. And yea, the Mac running Windows is better than Windows running Mac, that's for sure.

Hi all, long time reader first time poster. Macs are just as vulenerable as Windows machines when it comes to viruses. I know Mac users refuse to believe this but its true. A magizine ran an article for 30 days offering a new virus/backdoor/velnerability/etc each day. There's been competitions to hack Macs, one which ended in 30 minutes, and someone just discovered a mishandling in quicktime that could be used to take hijack the computer through the plugin if the webpage is visited. (I'll find links later.) One fomr a while ago: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=1798 Secondly, there are emulators for Macs on Windows machines but they aren't very good unless the operating system is stored externally, kind of a dual boot fashion.