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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. Forste Pooste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    May allah be so kind as to grant me the fosrte pooste on the glorious article about Mac OS X.

  2. 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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    1. Re:IE Flaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Well, you're quite the retard aren't you?

  3. Re:Well! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's NONsecure. You tard....

  4. 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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  5. Oh, joy! by codeforprofit2 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Lets see some serious microsoft bashing geeks!

  6. CyberTerrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's an act of CyberTerrorism inflicted by MS upon Apple.

  7. Re:Users are dumb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Especially when we're dealing with Macintosh users here. These are the same people who can't even swap out a hard drive or some memory.

  8. MODERATORS ON CRACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    how can the first post be redundant?

    you stupid fuckers

  9. 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.

  10. Re:Cut the crap .hqx==.uue or base64 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Read the article you fucking idiot. It desompresses then AND THEN IT EXECUTES THEM. You are such a stupid shit.

  11. Didn't make the Top 20 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Systems Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute unveiled a list of 20 software flaws this week that the group, along with the FBI, recommends be given special attention by corporate data managers.

    The list includes seven security problems that affect all systems, six vulnerabilities specific to Microsoft servers, and seven flaws that affect various flavors of Unix (news - web sites), including Linux (news - web sites) and Solaris.

    Maybe there just aren't enough MAC (and I do mean the one on your network card, A-Hole) users to make any security issues on their lousy, overpriced boxes matter. I guess I can sit on the major bug I found on the Amiga.

  12. 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?

  13. Re:total utter bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and this piece of trash is modded up to "insightful". what a bunch of retards you all are.

  14. 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.