[Swordmaker]

That will print the version numbers if they're installed on your system.

I hadn't tested this... but yesterday, none of the demonstration exploits would work on my Mac. The MOAB guys did say a "working" version of Perl and Ruby. After you mentioned double-checking, I invoked Perl from a terminal and then tried the #2 exploit and it worked. Tried 1,3,& 4 and they didn't. Then I Invoked Ruby and they worked. The programing languages have to be running... then their vulnerabilities work. Thanks for the heads up.

[for-q-clinton]

I hadn't tested this... but yesterday, none of the demonstration exploits would work on my Mac. The MOAB guys did say a "working" version of Perl and Ruby. After you mentioned double-checking,

I invoked Perl from a terminal and then tried the #2 exploit and it worked.

Tried 1,3,& 4 and they didn't. Then I Invoked Ruby and they worked.

The programing languages have to be running... then their vulnerabilities work.

Thanks for the heads up.

So is it safe to say you were wrong on the subject that started this whole discussion? :-D

When will you be installing your anti-virus protection for Mac? I recommend staying away from Norton/Symantec as they have been horrible on the Windows platform causing about 50% of all the blue screens I've ever seen and they can corrupt data.

[for-q-clinton]

Not sure how all you stand on this, but Swordmaker finally admits Mac has some holes. The good news is there aren't a lot of Macs out there so you don't have to worry about them propogating very quickly.

Be Sure to read his post where he confirmed the exploits listed in the MOAB (with special credit to Hal9000 as he explained how to do it properly).

I just want to make sure the Mac zealots don't think their system is 100% secure. I'm sure it's a fine OS (now), and it works good for the 5 to 10% of users that want to be unique but don't want to mess with BSD or Linux.