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Huge security hole in Internet Explorer for MacOS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-really-funny dept.

Brad Lucier writes "Macintouch is reporting (go down the page a bit) that Internet Explorer 5.1, which comes preinstalled on MacOS X 10.1, has a huge security hole---when it downloads arbitrary programs encoded in the Macintosh's standard BinHex (.hqx) format, it automatically executes them. " Well I guess thats one way to make Unix insecure. Can anyone actually confirm this since it looks kinda sketchy. I wonder what someone's rationale would be for that:"Oh this won't hurt anyone, and saving that extra 'OK' click will be great!".

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  1. IE Flaw by sabinm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So is that really MS$ or a throw back for MAC's inablility to play nice on the web?

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  2. OSX bug? try WinXP! by rolux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    guess that's just another nice try to keep people from using non-microsoft operating systems...

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  3. Re:Near-Useless Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I see your problem.

    You're booting Lose-XP on your computer.

    You need to be using Win-XP.

  4. Mac savvy users... by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, but I'm sure those 10 people already did turn it off, what about the rest of the Mac users?

  5. Wadda buncha maroons by Joseppi+Blauinski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    geez: "I hadda schiddy Mac experience (because I don't know whaddafsck I'm doing)" ... PC heads just don't get it. They're used to driving Fords and think that a BMW is a peezaschidt. Most of them haven't even driven Sun, SGI, HP, or a DEC Alpha either. They'd probably have a schiddy experience with them too.