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March 25th, 2010 @ The Royal Garden Hotel, London
The third annual PCR Awards is set to be the social event of the year for anyone involved in the PC retail sector, and a well deserved celebration for the nominees.
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Complaints of deleted accounts begin to surface; number affected remains uncertain
Reports have emerged detailing a serious flaw in Apple’s Snow Leopard operating system that completely wipes data from the system.
Numerous complaints on the matter have surfaced on Apple’s support forum, with dissatisfied users claiming that their user settings have been reset and most data has been erased from their hard drive.
The number of deleted accounts and vulnerable computers remains uncertain. Apple has not yet confirmed the existence of the flaw. PCR is contacting the firm for comment.
It is said that the flaw is triggered when a user signs into the OS using a guest account and then attempts to sign in using their personal account.
The theory put forward so far is that guest accounts, by default, have their data deleted upon logging out. If a user logs in as a guest and then back into their personal account, the OS will treat both as a guest account and delete all data.
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It is said that the problem seems to only occur when Leopard users directly upgrade to Snow Leopard, and in the former had enabled guest accounts.
Tried it like you said - doesn't happen to me. What evidence are we talking about here? I think it is reasonable to cite the sources of rumours like this (identities and/or sample size of sufferers), or else the response is either cynicism (like mine after trying it) or a Lemming-like 'oh, I knew I should have stayed with the stable (sic) Windows OS!'. Facts please. Or we won't listen to you next time.
"Tried it like you said."
I mean, you lost me here man. Either you're lying (likely) or you're remarkably dim.
This is a security flaw on Macs and you're so desperate to turn this into a Mac versus PC thing. Sad really.
Sorry Verity.
Clearly you've experimented using the flaw description given by Rob above (that's what I referred to) and found it happens.
Hey man! I and lots of folk are lying or dim.
Sorry about the PC reference. It must be a raw nerve. You have a Snow Leopard Mac to test this on, right?
