Apple has released a technical note recommending the use of Mac antivirus software. For the first time Apple admits that Macs need protection like other operating systems aswell. Apple recommends three Anti Virus solutions: Intego VirusBarrier X5 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Mac McAfee VirusScan for Mac The open source virus scanner ClamXav is not [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS X’
[MacOS] Apple recommends using Virus Scanners
December 2nd, 2008 
J. Epstein 
Posted in News 
Tags: Apple Anti Virus, Hack, leopard, Mac OS Leopard, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, MacOS, macos x, MacOSX, Protection, Virii, Viruses 
No Comments »[MacOS] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Change the Dock to 2D
November 14th, 2008 J. Epstein You don’t like the Dock in 3D? You like it in 2D but sadly this is available only if you put the Dock to the left or the right side of the screen? There is a simply command that can help you :-) Changing the Dock to 2D Just open a terminal and do the [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News Tags: Change Dock, Dock 2D, Dock 3D, How To, leopard, Mac OS X, Revert Dock, Terminal No Comments »[MultiPlatform] TrueCrypt 6.1 Released
November 4th, 2008 J. Epstein The open source encryption program TrueCrypt 6.1 has been released. It now features: Encrypt a non-system partion without losing existing data (Windows) Support for security tokens and smart cards TrueCrypt bootloader can be configured to not show texts Encrypted Windows system partitions can now be mounted by Linux or MacOS X » Download TrueCrypt 6.1 [...]
[MacOS] Recommended Apps: Witch
October 13th, 2008 J. Epstein All of us switchers know the situation: rather that switching from one application to another in Microsoft Windows we can switch from every window to another using ALT-TAB. The problem is such behaviour is not known to the Mac world. The developer Peter Maurer puts it that way: Sure, you can use Mac OS X’s [...]
[e-Biz] Apple Asks Court To Dismiss Psystar’s Countersuit
October 2nd, 2008 J. Epstein After Psystar countersued Apple a month ago for anticompetitetive business practices (read here). Apple’s attorneys now respond on 23 pages. Apple’s argumentation in short: Psystar violates Apple’s license agreement when putting Mac OS X on Psystar’s OEM computers. In the paper Apple tries to circumvent the whole monopoly issue by argueing that there is no [...]
Posted in News Tags: Alexander Graf, Apple, Countersue, Countersuit, Linux, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, macos x, MacOSX, monopoly, Psystar, Qemu, Xen No Comments »[MacOS] MacOS X Leopard Update 10.5.5
September 16th, 2008 J. Epstein Finally Apple released update 10.5.5 yesterday. Features of 10.5.5 include Apple’s recent security updates, Addressbook bugfixes and lots of other fixes (read all details here). To sum things up: Apple recommends to apply this update as soon as possible. And yes we will obey. All genuine Mac users can safely update. There are no reports [...]
Posted in News Tags: 10.5.5, ALC883, Apple, AppleHDA, hackint0sh, hackintosh, leopard, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, macos x, patcher, update No Comments »[MacOS] VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta to include McAfee Antivirus
September 1st, 2008 J. Epstein VMWare has released VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta for MacOS X. Fusion will integrate McAfee Antivirus solution with an upgrade and update plan for 12 months. Moreover Fusion 2.0 will be available as a free update for Fusion 1.0 customers. Further features: Application sharing: link filetypes from MacOS X to run a specific Windows program (on [...]
[e-Biz] Psystar countersues Apple
September 1st, 2008 J. Epstein Mac clone manufacturer Psystar said to countersuit Apple for anticompetitetive business practices on Tuesday (see our recent report here). For this operation Psystar hired antitrust specialist attorney Colby Springer from Carr & Farrell. Psystar will file sues on the basis of two U.S. american laws to prevent monopolies and cartels (see Sherman Antitrust Act and [...]
[e-Biz] Open Tech: The Next Mac Clone Manufacturer
July 22nd, 2008 J. Epstein Open Tech inc. – a previously unknown company is in the starting blocks to provide Intel based computers that are able to run MacOS X. We hackintoshed seniors may be irritated by such an announcement since almost any Intel based computer is able to run MacOS X, nowadays. In contrast to Psystar, who is currently [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Clone, hackint0sh, hackintosh, Mac Clone, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, MacClone, macos x, netkas, Open Tech, Open Tech inc., OpenTech, osx, Psystar 2 Comments »[iPhone] XPwn Command Line Utility released
July 15th, 2008 J. Epstein As member of the iPhone Dev Team, planetbeing today released “XPwn”. He describes “XPwn” as an experimental pwnage tool for Linux. Although XPwn was proposedly developed for Linux users, it actually is a cross-platform tool for command line users. Update: It does not support firmware 2.0 yet. Warning The XPwn tool is not intended to [...]
Posted in News Tags: experimental Pwnage, iPhone 3G, iPhone pwn, iPhwn, Linux, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, macos x, MacOSX, Pwnage Tool, sim unlock, unlock firmware 2.0, Windows, XPwn 1 Comment »[MultiPlatform] TrueCrypt 6.0 released
July 7th, 2008 J. Epstein TrueCrypt is the leading open-source software to encrypt drive volumes. It supports Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Version 5.1 has been released just 3.5 months ago in march. Now the Truecrypt team has released version 6.0 with the following features: Parallelized encryption/decryption on multi-core/multi-cpu systems – thus demanding less time for the en- and decryption [...]
Posted in News Tags: Boot encryption, Encryption, FileSystem, Linux, Mac OS X, macos x, MacOSX, operating system, system drive encryption, Truecrypt, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP No Comments »[MacOS] HowTo Update to MacOS X 10.5.3
June 1st, 2008 alexander Update 02.07.2008: MacOS X 10.5.4 is out now. See our notes here. I. Abstract Three days ago (May, 28th) Leopard update 10.5.3 has been released. It solves several security issues and application issues (read details here). So sumed up: you should update. Being on a Hackint0sh we need to take some things into consideration because [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS Tags: 10.5.3., Combo Update, DMG, hackint0sh, hackintosh, How To, Howto, Mac OS X, netkas, tutorial, while script 2 Comments »