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MAC - Security, Viruses and Spyware

Who's the moron on here stated MACs are safe from Viruses & Spyware?

The MAC AIRBOOK got hacked under 2 mins and now ... this. If the MACs were so great, they wouldn't have secuirty leaks with OSX10, Safari and indeed wouldn't need a Virus/Spyware Scans.


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Posted on 28.05.2008 at 23:51 in Applications by Nikola
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Apple fixes 40 security holes in Mac OS X


Posted on 29.05.2008 at 10:45 in Tech News by Martin
Apple released a hefty security update for the Mac OS X and OS X Server on Wednesday that fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities, a number of which could be exploited to enable someone to run programs on the machine remotely or lead to the disclosure of sensitive data. Security Update 2008-003 is for Mac OS X v 10.4.11 and Mac OS X Server v 10.4.11. The fixes are included in the latest Leopard edition, Mac OS X v 10.5.3, which also was released on Wednesday. The software fixes vulnerabilities that could have led to arbitrary code execution and/or unexpected application termination related implemntaton of: AFP Server, AppKit, Apple Pixlet Video, ATS, CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics, Flash Player Plug-in, Help Viewer, and iCal. The iCal vulnerability was discovered by Core Security, which last week announced it had found three vulnerabilities in iCal.

It also fixes vulnerabilities that could have led to disclosure of sensitive information related to implementation of technologies including CUPS, International Components for Unicode, and CFNetwork when visiting a maliciously crafted Web site due to an issue in Safari�s SSL client certificate handling. In addition, the software fixes a vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure when viewing a maliciously crafted BMP or GIF image and lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution when viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG2000 image file. Security Update 2008-003 and Mac OS X v 10.5.3 are available from Apple�s Software Downloads Web site.

*** Welcome to the real world MACs users, your viruses and spyware have already started ... I have a feeling some hacker out there will soon make a virus/worm that will cause Hardware failure to the MACs, just to prove a point to the world. ***

Re: MAC - Security, Viruses and Spyware

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Originally posted by E2EK1EL Who's the moron on here stated MACs are safe from Viruses & Spyware? The MAC AIRBOOK got hacked under 2 mins and now ... this. If the MACs were so great, they wouldn't have secuirty leaks with OSX10, Safari and indeed wouldn't need a Virus/Spyware Scans.

What do art students know lol...

Re: MAC - Security, Viruses and Spyware

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Originally posted by E2EK1EL I have a feeling some hacker out there will soon make a virus/worm that will cause Hardware failure to the MACs, just to prove a point to the world.

I have a feeling his name will be John Tang (the chosen one).

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Originally posted by fayraree I have a feeling his name will be John Tang (the chosen one).

If I could ... no 2nd thoughts about it Thank you for the ref sir!

OS X is the new Windows 98 and Safari is the new IE6

I've had a anti-virus software on my Mac since Day One!

Nothing EVER is safe...

Eventhough I do browse those sites sometimes that is a 'no no' with a Windows computer, and haven't had a problem yet lol

You need to get your Serial Keys somewhere!