Thanks, Jerry, mine was turned on, although it was not some time ago. General question : How come so many little things all of a sudden grace your computer of which you have no idea how they appeared and may change the layout or require you to do some click or whatever, without you ever doing anything, or, if you upgrade something, you are never explained those additional changes that occur on top of the ones the upgrade is made for. Marta
On Feb 21, 2006, at 22:56, Jerry Yeager wrote: > 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... > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | 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>
