Apple Patches 17 Bugs In Mac OS X

TechWeb ^ | December 03, 2004 | TechWeb.com

[Eagle9]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

[stockpirate]

All of you anti-MS system people, you mean to tell me that MAC has defects?

[BlackbirdSST]

...you mean to tell me that MAC has defects?

Yes, both of them are defective. Blackbird.

[stockpirate]

I think there are three of them acually. :-)

[JoeSixPack1]

Oh nooooooo, the smug elitist Mac users have bugs? OMG!! The world is going to end!

No usable software and security risks too?? Oh the humanity!

[azhenfud]

Wait a minute, people have touted those Apples as without blimishes.

[stockpirate]

YOu won't believe the crap I have been assualted with from Mac users here on FR concerning MS, oh yeah, and the Linux users too.

[BlackbirdSST]

I think there are three of them acually. :-)

Well, we are in the midst of the Christmas shopping season, so I figure there will be four or five by years end, all defective of course! Blackbird.

[azhenfud]

Ol Mac users have a bug, this is true I know.
With a leak, leak here - a leak, leak there, here a leak, there a leak...


Oh, never mind - stick with what works the longest and trash what doesn't....

[randita]

ping

[John Valentine]

The Mac OS does have vulnerabilities, but they are nowhere near as severe as those in the Windows world. Apple does a commendable job of keeping the system updated as vulnerabilities are discovered.

So what? It's really a bit ironic and even revealing for one person to point out that someone else just lost a quarter when he themself just droped a grand at the tables. Thats how it comes off when Windows fanatics gleefully revel in the announcement of the merest mention of a Mac vulnerability. My suggestion is that such individuals take care of their own.

As for me, I ran the security updates day before yesterday, I operate behind a hardware firewall, and I don't worry about any hacker getting control over my Mac. It's just not going to happen.

[trebb]

As for me, I ran the security updates day before yesterday, I operate behind a hardware firewall, and I don't worry about any hacker getting control over my Mac. It's just not going to happen.

That's the key - use a firewall, a good AV and stay updated with security patches. Even my Windows machine has been bogey-free for several years now.

[Quinotto]

As a former Windows user and a current Apple user, all I have to say is that the difference is clear. I made the switch with ease, the OSX is a no-nonsense approach, user friendly and ALAS you are able to actually talk to an Apple rep for FREE, get help right away and actually not having to wait on hold for "the next available representative". But that was 5 years ago when I first made the switch with the older models of iMac. I am now a happy G5 user and to the day, I never had issues with hackers, blue screen of death (aka kernel 32 error) or CPU overheating. I admit it, my first mac was bought because, as a woman, I found it to be "pretty", but to my surprise, there was more to it than just looks. Yes, I am shallow, I admit it :) But don't label the Apple users as elitists, they just happen to use a superior product. It's hard to make the Windows users, who have never used a Mac but maybe from a store display, understand the difference. And now, for the humor release, these are 4 of my emails SIGs, enjoy!

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Soon you will realize that you have been on the dark side, you are now on the path to the light. The light shines in the darkness and Windows comprehendeth it not. I once was lost but now IMac , was crashed but now Irun. May the OS X be with you, Grasshopper.

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Titanic '12 - Hindenburg '36 - Hiroshima '45 - Nagasaki '45 - Chernobyl '85 - Windows '95

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Being a Mac user is like being a Navy SEAL: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, who everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently.

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I complained because I had no shoes; then I met a man who had no feet. I complained because I had no iMac; then I met a man who used Windows©

[stockpirate]

Thats true but at the same time some of use MS for our own reasons and we don't need to be attacked here just because we don't use Mac or Linux.

As I stated in my other post, you wouldn't beleive the attacked I have had by Linux people and Mac users.

If Apple hadn't been so full of themseleves in the beginning they could have capured the pc market.

[jalisco555]

I complained because I had no shoes; then I met a man who had no feet. I complained because I had no iMac; then I met a man who used Windows©

Tell it brother. I'm now into my eighteenth month with my Powerbook with no breakdowns, no viruses, no spyware no... As for my previous laptop, the Dell From Hell, well I spent more time talking to tech support in Bangalore than I did using it.

[RtWngr]

Amen - I use a G4 and 3 PC's every day. If the software I use on the PC's was written for OS X I would replace them with G5's in a heartbeat. I've used PC's and Windows from the beginning. The MAC is the finest, most stable and reliable PC I have ever owned, due in large part to the OS. I used to make fun of the eggheads and their macs, now I am one.

[RtWngr]

I think Apple's decision not to let everyone clone their computers was the main reason they didn't have a bigger impact. Plus OSX is the only operating system that makes any sense - the previous Apple OS's were way too complicated and unstable (I got that from pre-OSX users). IBM let everyone clone their boxes, and now they are trying to get out of that business.

[avenir]

"But don't label the Apple users as elitists, they just happen to use a superior product."

Kinda like "Don't hate me cause I'm beautiful."

Or like Jaco used to say, "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."

Problem is, as you pointed out, Microdaft Windows users can't see if Apple is just braggin' by their brief encounters with Mac's in a computer mall. And, as I discovered when I was shopping for my last PC, Apple doesn't offer as much for the money they want to charge.

[stockpirate]

Also Apple made the mistake of not going out after he business, thinking that their product was so much better than everyone else's people would just buy it instead, the same mistake was made by Sony with the betamax format, by leaving it at 5 hours recording time.

[section9]

I have a virus that wormed its way into my system and attached itself to my Word for Mac program. Didn't know it was there until my cousin told me that his mailguard wiped my attached Word file that I had sent to him because it was carrying a virus. This had occured before the Security update was sent out late last week.

My Mac has usually been stable, but I do notice some slower load times and the pinwheel more often than I like, so I suspect that there's more crap on there than I want. My Mac is an iMac with Mac OSX Jaguar, upgraded to Mac OSX Panther (a sweet platform without the bugs, by the way).

Is there something I can download now, for Mac, to kill all potential onboard viruses that I have or do I need to go to Comp USA and buy Norton for Mac? In addition, what's a good firewall for Mac?

Be Seeing You,

Chris