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Geek Culture / osx / safari vunerbility

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indi
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 16:10
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As long as you dont have "Open Safe files after downloading" in Safari on, things should be ok

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2006/11/23/iadware_fsecure_sees_example_of_adware_for_osx_which_works.html

I smell an apple security update for christmas.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 17:29
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Does this effect Firefox in OSX?

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John Y
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 21:26
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I think it is a kernel problem, so opening a 'dodgy' dmg image manually or with another program will still cause the problem.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 29th Nov 2006 23:27
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I bet that's what my friend caught on his Mac. About 2 weeks ago I think, using spotlight would open up safari to some weird search page. Happens on different accounts and different machines. The different machines led us to believe the router had possibly been compromised, but that could just be a coincidence on all the machines.

That article didn't really say much, other than "OSX has been compromised, have a nice day"

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