On 19/5/04, John Francis, discombobulated, offered: >Hot on the heels of the assurances that OS/X is secure, and not >susceptible to the same sorts of exploits Windows suffers from, >comes the news that there's a gaping great hole in OS/X as shipped. > >Basically, the AppleHelp service can be used to execute an >arbitrary shell-level script. (rm -rf /, anybody?) > >I'd suggest any OS/X users here might want to disable that service.
John, can you put that into plain language for me? thx. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
