Safari, IE vulnerability allows execution of malicious code
 

Just found this article at yahoo..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...fmaliciouscode

The good thing is that the solution is easy:
" Secunia recommends opening Safari preferences and uncheck "Open 'safe' files after download."

Actually it is part of a problem discovered a few weeks ago that involves being able to script a shell season to do bad things.

You could create an AppleScript that scripted the terminal to open a shell and issue the command rm -rf ~/ or write some kind of file. Basically it is a trojan program not a virus or worm.

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/05/17/safari/

You are fast, Cleo :)

I'm using Mac OS 9.2.2 still so just thought it may be interesting.

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