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Does the Apple have a maggot?? At least it is not just XP that has flaws.
//goes to hide whilst awaiting barrage from Andrew and other fellow mac'ites//
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| Quote: | Apple squashes 22 bugs
By Techworld staff
Apple has fixed no less than 22 security holes including a critical bug in its AirPort wireless drivers, disclosed earlier this month.
The AirPort flaw was disclosed by researcher HD Moore and affects Proxim Wireless' Orinoco wireless cards used by PowerBook and iMacs. The cards, branded "AirPort" by Apple, shipped with eMac, iBook, iMac, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4 and Power Mac G4 systems, Apple said. But the issue does not affect AirPort Extreme cards.
Apple warned the hole could be used by an attacker to run unauthorised software on a victim's computer, but Moore's exploit code could only be used to cause a computer to crash.
Security researchers have been paying a lot of attention to wireless device drivers since August, when researchers David Maynor and Jon Ellch reported that they'd discovered a number of significant flaws in wireless drivers, including one that affected Apple's computers.
Maynor and Ellch were later criticised because they demonstrated these flaws using a third-party wireless card rather than the one that ships with Apple's MacBook, and because the two hackers have not published the code used in their attack.
Nevertheless, Apple patched a number of vulnerabilities in its wireless drivers last September, claiming they were unrelated to Maynor and Ellch's discovery and had been discovered in an internal audit of the company's software.
The update also fixes several issues in products that ship with OS X, including flaws in the ClamAV anti-virus software, Perl, PHP and Samba.
Original reporting by IDG News Service
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Hehe I think the keys words/phrases to extract from this article are "Apple has fixed" ... "security holes" ... "disclosed earlier this month" ... "The AirPort flaw".
 http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?p=3650
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | including flaws in the ClamAV anti-virus software |
And people are always telling me how OSX doesn't need anti-virus software!
Oh how I hate anti-virus software.
By the way, how come out of "22 security holes" only one of them is noted as a "critical bug"? Isn't a security hole a security hole? (Or maybe the latest round of cracker attacks are aimed at simply, er, detecting what version of Photoshop you're using! Aha!)
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ClamAV is primarily designed for scanning mail, so it's not really the same as say Norton or NOD32 (who do scan mail, but it's not what they're designed to do primarily).
I've removed the border from the icons, I didn't realise it was there. Safari evidently doesn't add a border as standard. Other browsers do. All links now have this as there are two ways to visit a link, one with a NH toolbar the other in a new page without the toolbar. It's not possible (at least not easily) to exclude nethosted links.
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| NetHosted - Andrew wrote: | | Hehe I think the keys words/phrases to extract from this article are "Apple has fixed" ... "security holes" ... "disclosed earlier this month" ... "The AirPort flaw". |
But MS is fixing holes in XP all the time so they must be better than OS 
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But MS is fixing holes in XP all the time so they must be better than OS |
You're right of course!   
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Kernel Bugs Project makes interesting reading. OSX is on there a lot but then so are a lot of linux bugs. Nobody's perfect after all (certainly not me, I like being imperfect).
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| rhinoian wrote: | | Kernel Bugs Project makes interesting reading. OSX is on there a lot but then so are a lot of linux bugs. |
Fully agreed, it's just the length of time it took MS to bother to patch this that makes the mind boggle 
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| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:16 am Post subject: Re: Does Apple have a maggot? |
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| rhinoian wrote: | //goes to hide whilst awaiting barrage from Andrew and other fellow mac'ites//
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My new Mac has just arrived...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:52 am Post subject: Re: Does Apple have a maggot? |
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| Silvano wrote: | My new Mac has just arrived...
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Just say no!!!!
Does look nice though. What does it have under the hood?
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Nice choice! My feeling is one of the "killer" features of the next version of Mac OS X is going to be integrated Parrales support. Seemlessly run OS X, Windows and Linux together. That way you'll be able to run any app in the world on your OS X desktop.
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| NetHosted - Andrew wrote: | Nice choice! My feeling is one of the "killer" features of the next version of Mac OS X is going to be integrated Parrales support. Seemlessly run OS X, Windows and Linux together. That way you'll be able to run any app in the world on your OS X desktop.
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Is that more of a 'dual-boot' thing or a 'virtual machine' thing?
I've never seen much point in running multiple OS's. I did it once, but found that I was pretty much solely using one of them and not the other.
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It's virtual, you can swap to each OS in a split second, and now they've introduced it so that you can run apps from say Windows directly in OS X.
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| NetHosted - Andrew wrote: | | It's virtual, you can swap to each OS in a split second, and now they've introduced it so that you can run apps from say Windows directly in OS X. |
Through the VM thing or through something like Wine?
I don't know what apps from Windows I'd want to run in OSX. Everything I use seems to have an OSX equivalent that's as-good-as or better. Office 2007 perhaps... Oh, Skype! The OSX version just doesn't cut it. Okay maybe there are a few things. 
Me too poor to afford a Mac anyway! 
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| Mike T wrote: | Through the VM thing or through something like Wine?
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Yeah it's a VM, take a look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9IdvUPyQy0
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