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OS X flaw
« on: April 11, 2004, 12:02:50 AM »
Just read about this flaw at http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5189335.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news from my RSS reader of Security news at CNET.com.

Since I do not know much about Macs, I hope this might be of help to those who do (like MacLover2000). ;)

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Re:OS X flaw
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2004, 12:15:33 AM »
link would not pull up. however I think its the same flaw we are talking about in the off topic forum.  MP3:concept trojan uses this.
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« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2004, 12:17:56 AM »
ahh i got the page to load. yep its the MP3 flaw. a trojan already takes advantage of it. and apple is working on a fix.
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« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2004, 05:24:44 AM »
Have you seen this article?
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000129
by the way what RSS reader are you using?
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« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2004, 02:48:27 PM »
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Do note that F-Secure does not have a Macintosh antivirus. We used to, though. F-Secure was actively distributing and developing a Macintosh antivirus product between 1991 and 1998, but nowadays we only do Windows and Linux.


Booooo! I love f-secure's products. And AVAST does not make a version for Mac either!


Max, I use the following for an RSS reader
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2004, 05:25:26 PM »
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by the way what RSS reader are you using?

I use Firefox with the RSS reader extension from http://fls.moo.jp/moz/rssreader.html.   ;)

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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2004, 03:23:25 AM »
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Happy easter from me too!
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