Bad luck Andrew.
The vulnerabilities that you can check with Grisoft are, I believe the
common ones. And they are common to all network-enabled computers.
The tests therefore are valid for any platform. They won't check for
OS-related vulnerabilities, but they won't be a problem if the
computer is not visible on the network.
However, you will note that the website's application seems to "know"
your IP number. As long as this is a result of your having selected
an action on the website, such as "Proceed", that would seem to be
OK ...
Happy Christmas, old bean, from a rainy England where most people are
ridden with colds.
Chris
p.s. I think that, in this context, it should have been "might have
lost funds". Although, since you didn't, perhaps it shouldn't ... :-)
cb
On 24 Dec 2007, at 22:51, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Nevertheless, I suffered a raid on my Paypal account recently because
> my OSX firewall settings were wrong (as my son contemptuously
> informed me). Eight spurious transactions of $50 and $100. This
> happened two days after making a couple of purchases from Hong Kong
> and China. I lost nothing as I was able to reverse the transactions
> but it was annoying and took time to sort out, including a couple of
> days with my account suspended.
> Fortunately I have email notification of all transactions and saw
> them immediately.
> Unfortunately my account is linked to my bank so there were a half-
> dozen calls on that account to top up my deliberately low PP balance.
> But for the international delay in transfer, I may have lost funds.
> GriSoft now assures me that I'm running in Stealth mode, that is that
> I don't exist, but does it only check for Windows vulnerabilities?
> Could we still be vulnerable to intrusions tailored to find Mac users?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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