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It’s kind of weird. Nearly everyone I know that has seen this has downloaded the proof of concept to see if it did any other evil. I wonder how many windows users vs mac users download proof of concepts “just because”. i was surprised how many people willing downloaded it.
But yeah, turning off “open safe files” doesn’t protect you in the least. Since you downloaded it, you’re likely to open it in any case. Heck, even if it was just downloaded automatically, chances are you’re going to double click it in the finder as soon as you see it in your downloads folder just because you’re wondering wtf it is.
| Rosyna | Nov. 23, 2006 | |
| 1:14 am |
I’ve had an intermittant issue where DVDs don’t mount in the finder (no icon) and are not seen by DVD player despite showing up in disk utility. This always seemed to follow opening a .dmg file to install a software update. The only solution was a reboot - a logout isn’t enough.
I wonder if this bug is related?
What a bunch of crap. No exploit has been proven.
“leading to an exploitable memory corruption condition with potential kernel-mode arbitrary code execution by unprivileged users.” Month of Kernel Bugs
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-20- 11-2006.html
The report says “potential” not an actual or PROVEN exploit. They are guessing as usual and everyone falls for it.
Over and over again eveyone falls for the hype.
Yes, I’m pretty certain I quoted those exact words from MoKB.
I fail to see where I fall into the hype. With the exception of where I mention Secunia, I construe it as a bug--in fact, nowhere do Ieven mention the word “security.”
No. Hype is pointing to this and saying that the Mac is losing its edge (even though security holes are inevitable) and that we Mac users are now doomed to virus problems on the scale of Windows’ (even though we’re a small slice of the market and really have yet to see anything more than proofs-of-concepts in the wild).
| Nick | Nov. 23, 2006 | |
| 2:06 pm |
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Surf safely? Don’t you mean, “Don’t download and run proof of concepts”?