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[url]http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-251586.html[/url] [quote]Two pieces of malicious software affecting Apple's Mac OS X appeared this week: a Trojan horse with the ability to download and install malicious code of an attacker's choice, and a hacker tool for creating backdoors, according to security vendors. [more][/quote]Its sad that Macs arent even safe anymore........

Is it possible to use msn live messenger on a new macbook? Do you recommend if it is possible... or is it a recipe for disaster with viruses...etc?

hello, first time poster on this website. first, thank you to everyone who decides to even view this thread, i appreciate your concern. So my boss is breathing down my neck big time about getting some videos posted on youtube.com. im a film student, and so he has me doing …

I am trying to import my bookmarks into Safari. I have never used safari before. The format of my bookmarks is a HTML file. When I try and import Safari displays the HTML file with the list of URLs but I cannot seem to import that list of bookmarks into …

Hello, does anybody know how to read in the data from a file into a program and vise versa when i am programming on mac? To be more precise, i dont have a txt., i only have rtf. extensions. Every time i run the console, i get an error message …

I have been advised that relying on daily incremental backups ( I use SuperDuper) are dangerous because any corruption could set me back to the last full backup, whereas a full backup (daily) means I can never be more than a day wrong. I would appreciate the panel's views, or …

I need Tiger to run my design software and Leopard came on my new Mac Pro. How do I get both on my machine to boot from one or the other? Or is it possible to run both side by side as with Widows. I read the thread for Panther …

I am planning on ripping a DVD to mov, so does anyone know where i can get a free dvd ripper that converts DVD to Mov like the mac dvd ripper? I used handbrake, it cannot create a mov file. if you help, thanks

I think I need a program to mount a disk image. I aquired a program in 3 seperate .dmg files, but when i try to install i get a "fail to mount" message b/c "permission is denied." I was wondering how I can get around this problem, possibly a free …

I have Microsoft Office on 1 of my IMacs and would like to copy it to the other. I copied the application on a cd, but don't know how to install it. Can it be installed from a disk? Is there a way to copy it direct from on IMac …

Hello i'm not very good with this computer stuff. had problems when i re-installed tiger on my powerbook g4 and erased the hd, losing all my photos and itunes with 6000+ songs on. does anyone know if it's possible to get these things back, and if so, how ? regards …

I just accidently deleted my entire iTunes folder 35G, Had spent the last two weeks sorting out id3 tags artwork ect. and transferred it to an external harddrive. Later made a eal blunder and went to transfer another (As I thought a copy) to same harddrive and clicked "replace" I …

Hello, I keep getting these warning messages in the details of the repaired permissions text whenever I run repair, which is often. Kind of worries me as I've never seen a warning in repair permissions. But I just switched to a new machine that came with Leopard. Mac Mini 1.83GHz …

I have an Emac and older Imac 9.2 which has 6gig available on its hard drive. How do I go about using this older Imac as back-up storage for the Emac if at all possible so that I increased memory on the Emac. Please keep it simple ... I am …

Ok, this scared the crap out of me - remember this is a laptop and I was watching this on a macbookpro on my lap - exploding batteries etc: [URL="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/the-mysterious-macbook-pro-noise-198298.php"][COLOR=BLUE]http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/the-mysterious-macbook-pro-noise-198298.php[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/v/uwuMcFt07x8"][COLOR=BLUE]http://www.youtube.com/v/uwuMcFt07x8[/COLOR][/URL] :eek: One explanation was that it sounds like a fan - I didn't think the macbookpro has a fan... …

This website was working fine until sometime on Sunday when suddenly I got this message: The connection has timed out The server at [url]www.activeboard.com[/url] is taking too long to respond. * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. * If you are …

I have a 500gig HD I would like to partition and use to back up both a PC w/ XP and a MacBook Pro w/ Leopard. Can I, and if so, how do I format the drive(s)?

So I've got a game downloaded in .rar format. I opened it using winrar, and got the .dmg file for the game. I then burned the .dmg file onto a dvd using disk utility. I then installed the game. For some reason, whenever I click on the game that is …

I'm a web designer and am looking to get into programming. I have zero experience with programming. I think the best place to start is with C (open to suggestions) and last night purchased the K&R book on C. I almost exclusively use a Mac (OS X 10.4 - Tiger) …

Hi Folks, I have around 30 macs running a combination of 10.3 and 10.4 each running entourage. Everyone works except one. I put in all the server details, username and password like the others but for some reason i get a "invalid username or password" error message. I have resorted …

pease help me, i have G4 dual processor, with additional 256memory, but it always freezes it only work for few minutes, always needs to reboot, everytime we bring it for repair they we need to add this and that, but its not helping, please give me an answer. thank you

Hi all, Recently bought a MBP, converted all my wma's to mp3, and generally like iTunes. One thing I really liked about Windows media player is that it could be minimized to a mini-player that ran in the taskbar. A little screen would pop up when the track changed, letting …

I just received a LaCie 500GB mini Home Edition network drive. You connect it via ethernet to your router and should be able to access it anywhere on the internet. My Macbook pro cannot see the disk directly. But I can log onto the portal from a web browser. My …

hi i have one font converter software which converts windows fonts to mac fonts. so when i convert some adobe fonts from windows machine to mac version it gets converted with extension .bin. & when i open this font on mac machine it doesnt open . i am very new …

Hi I am trying to up grade my browser from Netscape 7 or Internet ex 5.1 but having no luck on the internet down loads. Every thing seems to be for Mac x+. I am running on the G3 tower O/S.9.1 Can any body help? Regards Norm.

Hello there, I'm member here almost two years but this is my first post since then. I used to be a winxp pc user and recently using mac os x macbook thats why I'm lil confused. I just wanted to run windows on my mac because I've read that I …

Hello I'm not sure if I've got the right place for my questions. I would like to get an easy to use, database program, for my mac. I need to type in all kinds of text on a large number of "file card" like the recipe cards-sized cards. Then I …

hi, looking at burning some of our kids dvd to save the originals from destruction of twin 2 yr olds, could anyone recommend some god software, looked at roxio but wondering what other options there might be. Also if i bought it from the US, is there any region code …

Hi all, I've responded to a lot of threads but this is the first of my [I]very own[/I]. I'm using Excel to manage a small amount of data for a website and saving the spreadsheet as CSV from [I]Windows MS Office 2003 Exce[/I]l. My client uses [I]Mac Office X Excel[/I] …

Hello everybody, I hope this is the right forum to post my question. It's a bit "in-between". I am about to write an updater for a programme of mine. The updater downloads an update-file from my server that has packed all files I want to replace and executes a simple …

Hi all, I have recently purchased an iMac. I want to connect it to the Windows Server 2003 network at my office. When I connect to the LAN, i am able to locate all the computers in my Finder. However, the other computers are not able to locate iMac. is …

Hello! I've just got a nice new iMac OSX,:icon_smile: however I can only get half my jpegs to appear properly on iPhoto. Some will appear completely, others are half blocked out with gray and others it won't read at all. If I have to get some more software (I had …

Can I run without problems on my new imac? What problems will occur? I am mainly an illustrator and photoshop person. Thanks.

hi to all ! i have create one project in .net(c#,asp,vb.net) from windows os. can i exccute this project in mac os?

Hi, I'm new to mac and loving it :) but i have a problem, last night i renamed the house icon in the finder window and after i restarted my desktop had changed and settings changed along with all my programs acting like they arn't installed. All the icons and …

Hi, If there is anyone out there who can shed light on why this has happened and more importantly how to fix it I will be forever in your debt! Basically, I am a student photographer and have taken loads of live images of gigs at a club. The club …

I'm brand new to this discussions, and these groups in general. I'm trying to find a program that will read/open Office Publisher documents. Does anyone have any ideas? thanks And I just found the answers, by reading through your other posts. I guess there is no way. I'm glad you're …

I am using a G3 and mac 10.5.4. How can I get the latest driver for my graphics card, NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce4 MX OpenGL Engine? thanks.

trying to use a blank dvd-r and my mac keeps spitting it back out without even coming up on screen, why is this happening

So one day I decided to update software on my new macbook pro without realizing my laptop wasn't connected to the power source. well, I quickly got a big sign that said my laptop needs to be connected to the power source. then SuperDrive Update 2.1 froze and unexpectedly closed. …

I am using mac leopard and the version of apache that came with my mac. (2.somthing) I typed this into my web browser:[code]http://localhost/~<myname>[/code] And this is what was displayed: Picture 1.png My Sites folder is a shared folder. How do I fix this?

I am very happy with my Mac book and I am also happy with the dual boot (boot camp/Leopard) generally but... I have recently tried to use a Windows sound recording program, well, actually three different ones, and none of them are able to identify a source for inputing streaming …

I have an old 366 MHz clamshell Indigo iBook, and it's got OS 10.3.9 on it. There's a Firewire port on this clamshell, but no DVD, so to try and put OS 10.4 on it I wanted to use Target Mode, which seems to be pretty straight forward, and use …

Hi there, having strange problem with one of my USB Drives. Was working correctly this morning but midway through transferring some data, it dropped and haven't seen it since. I'm hoping it's not as severe as a reformat or at least there might be suggestions you might have, but I'm …

Is there a microsoft paint like application for mac? Either built in, or for a free download? If I need to pay, it's not worth it, but if there is one, great. Thanks.

I just converted to an iMac and my new external floppy disk drive says it won't work because I don't have iMac OS 9. Does anyone know where I can download this for free? Thanks. tf

Hi: I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet) with 18GB HDD and 288 MB RAM. I use AT&T DSL on my Win XP desktop. I'm heading north and would like to take my laptop to check in on the web and check my email etc. I'll be staying in motels …

OK so a while back I posted how a customer forgot her password and so I eventually got her in the computer. Now she brings it to me and she cant type in the username and password, it's as if the keyboard is locked. the volume keys work, I can …

Hi, I have installed apache 2.2.8 and on [url]http://127.0.0.1/[/url] and [url]http://localhost/[/url] the browser is serving /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/index.html but: 1. personal web sharing just hangs waiting when I click Turn On PWS 2. [url]http://127.0.0.1/~macuser/[/url] does not bring up an index.html I placed there (in /Users/macuser/Sites/ ) I am not sure what am …

Hello guys, Im new in this website, i'd like to ask you a question. I dont know if this is the right place for this question... but any way How do i delete accounts that are saved in the adress box in messenger mac. alot of people used my lap …