Alle 11:10, mercoled� 19 maggio 2004, danilo ha scritto: > Alle 08:35, mercoled� 19 maggio 2004, Cotty ha scritto: > > 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. > > rm -rf / > > means : make up some space on those quite-full disk, you'll problably need > it. > but also means: loose all your data and Operating System too. > > Personally I prefer > rm -rf . > > that first delete your data. (to be sure) > > ;) > > on how to disable this service, i really don't know. > I haven't a Mac. > But mac is all about mouse, so there should be some option called > "AppleHelp" (as Cotty suggested) somewhere. Cotty is suggesting to disable > it, I don't know if there are any drawbacks. >
Sorry, obviously was Jhon Francis who wrote that mail, my mistake. Danilo
