Hey Andy perhaps we can stick this up top so that we can keep our windows using friends up to date with the latest patches.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ecurity_dc

There is a bright spot to this though. They found 51 flaws last year but they're only at 14 thus far this year. It is a trend in the right directrion. :twisted:

...ahem....
http://www.redeemerinsanity.com/bbs/vie ... php?t=1417

:D
Okay. The score is Microsoft 10359, Apple 1.

:lol:

Holy Shit. My question to you is why would anyone play an MP3 file that was sent to you via email from some one you didn't know. Guess the guy who made that virus didn't realize that Mac folks are smarter than that. :lol:

Remember the critical flaws that MS keeps finding are Hacking issues not Virus issues.

Very well done nonetheless Jarg. "A" for effort. I don't know how I missed that one. I check the news everyday. I must have subconciously blocked that one out. :lol:

"Companies Brace for Windows Update"

Gotta love that headline...lol...sounds like hurricane season...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/07/1 ... index.html

Well it's been a while......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4079818.stm

I especially like the third paragraph which lays the blame on the consumer again.

The thing I fear is this quote.




Now who is the WE he is referring to?? Childrens morals are not Microsoft's concern.

Macworld Daily News
Tuesday - February 21, 2006
Safari struck by Zip security warning

By Macworld staff

A new security vulnerability in Safari has been identified by security experts at Secunia.

The company - which rates the flaw as “extremely critical” - says that the vulnerability was discovered by a source outside the company, Michael Lehn.

It can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system, it warns.

The vulnerability is caused due by an error in the processing of file association meta data (stored in the "__MACOSX" folder) in ZIP archives.

“This can be exploited to trick users into executing a malicious shell script renamed to a safe file extension stored in a ZIP archive,” Secunia warns.

It can also be exploited automatically by Safari when visiting a malicious website.

The company has released a test users can run to check if their systems have been affected.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on an up-to-date system running Safari 2.0.3 (417.8) and Mac OS X 10.4.5.

Users can mitigate the threat by disabling the "Open safe files after downloading" option in Safari.


http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index...ge=1&pagePos=2

http://secunia.com/mac_os_x_command_...rability_test/

http://secunia.com/advisories/18963/