If you are a Safari user, open your Preferences and click on the General tab. There is an option to allow you to Open "safe" files after downloading. A while back it was recommended that you leave this unchecked, but there have been several upgrades to Safari and it may have inadvertently gotten turned back on.
IF it is checked 'on', turn it back off for a while (uncheck it). There is a new way of web-sites taking advantage of your visit to download a type of shell file that can compromise your system. Apple should be releasing a fix soon, like they did before (the new exploit is a version of the previous one -- just taking advantage of a slight error that Apple did not catch last time). For more info: http://secunia.com/mac_os_x_command_execution_vulnerability_test/ Note: this is more of an OS-X issue than a Safari issue. Make sure that if you use FireFox or Camino or whatnot you take similar precautions. Extra note: This is still NOT a virus! But it is something to be aware of. Extra extra note: I apologize for ending the previous sentence that way :^) Jerry ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. In the mean time this next one will have to do: ==================== 'W' Is for wiretap and a little more... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060221/b09a9295/attachment.bin
