Jerry, Thanks for the tips! Since I am ol' timer, (Apple Third Party Software Developer) I still get the security advisors, every time they are issued. But I didn't understand the true nature of this security hole, until this weekend. I do believe it is the worse one I have ever seen in the Mac Interface--and I am surprised it was overlooked until now. I can only assume Apple didn't want anyone to know about it, while they figure out how they will change the architecture --since it is an architectural problem, and that is what is going to have to be fixed. And thus it will take along time to fix it, and will probably require a whole new issue to the OS, don't you think?
As far as myself is concerned, I don't go into the dark dens of of the net to play doom, collect porno, or music, or software - all those dangerous crack sites, so I don't share the risks that others web users do. My major concern is of the sites I design interface for, and most importantly, the users I host over. Some of those Users, aren't as well behaved as I am.... ;-\ (They seem to get themselves into squirrely situations sometimes). So the more I know about any web nasties directly from Apple, the more I can watch out for security violations of my Apple Users, to their passcodes and accounts. So Apple, keeping us in the dark, is not a good thing, and I wish I had known about this back in February. If fact might have saved me a week of work, in my search for the source of a cracking event that one of my users had.... Eearily similar, in that the help page popped up. In the meantime, As far as safer Mac web surfing goes? I believe one can always drop back and boot up in System 9 instead, and use the browser that way. That is probably the safest way for Mac users to go, (if they surf dangerously) until a real fix is had. Yours, Kay | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
