Occasionally, when I install a new Magento module, when I try to access the module’s settings in the admin backend, all I get is a 404 error message.
To fix this, I go to System, Permissions, Roles, Administrators, and click on the Save Role button. Then I go to System, Cache Management, and flush all caches.
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If you keep up with tech news at all, you have undoubtedly heard about the “Flashback” trojan which has infected over 600,000 Macs worldwide. Within a few days of the initial reports about the trojan, Apple made updates available for the Java components of the OS X Lion and Snow Leopard. Kaspersky Labs, the publisher of a popular antivirus solution, even went so far as developing a websitewhere concerned Mac users could find out how to check for an infection, remove it if needed, and protect their systems against it.
I checked for an infection, found my system to be clean, and then applied the software updates Apple offered for my machine. I foolishly thought this was the end of it.
Having been a Windows user for over two decades, I was certainly no stranger to infections of all kinds, from trojans to mail worms. Typically, by the time I became aware of any single, specific virus, its infections were numbered in the millions. The Love Bug, Storm Worm, Koobface, MyDoom… There have been many over the years, and whenever a particularly widespread one came to my attention, I emailed my family and friends warning them about it.
That is how one should deal with computer viruses: detect & protect.
I am a longtime member of various computer and technology forums, and I have to say that I was confused by the large number of comments displaying jubilance over the news of the Flashback trojan. “What will Mac fan-boys do now?,” asked one troll member. Clearly, this was the field day Mac-haters had been salivating for.
The common misconception about Macs is that they are virus-proof. No device that connects to the Internet is entirely infection-proof. Period.
Apple used to run ads, and may still do so for all I know, where they boasted that Macs are not vulnerable to “PC viruses.” This was and remains to be true; viruses coded for Windows-based machines are not likely to be able to infect OS X systems. Sure, the wording of those ads were undoubtedly intentionally vague, but the message was not that Macs could not be infected with malware.
There have been malware written for Macs, which is why Apple came out with built-in anti-spyware functionality in OS X back in 2009.
600,000 infected Macs, or tens of millions infected Windows machines – I just don’t see the humour in it.
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