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Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again
itwbennett writes "Blogger Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wags his finger at Apple for indiscriminately pushing the iPhone Configuration Utility 2.1 update out to Windows users, since it is a tool for business system administrators to set up and administer corporate iPhones — the blogger himself (and practically every other iPhone user) not being of the corporate iPhone user persuasion. But more than just unnecessary, the update actually puts him and millions of other iPhone owners/Windows PC users at increased risk by installing 'not just a configuration program, but the Apache Web server as well,' says Vaughan-Nichols. 'A Web server like the one Apple [is] adding to your PC... [is] a gateway just asking to be hammered on by an attacker. Managed properly Apache is as safe a Web server as you'll ever find, but ordinary PC users shouldn't try to manage it, and even an expert can't do anything with it if they don't know it's there.'" Reader CWMike notes that Apple pulled the iPhone Configuration Utility from the update list after a few hours.
Google translates 3 google seconds as 9.50662939*10^92 years.
I assume this update will be irrelevant by then...
On the other hand, the update isn't for the admin who can update quickly, but rather for the user who lets his software get old, thinking apple will send him updates when they make a difference to the functionality of his software. He is not reading what the update does, even though he has the option, because it's from apple.
This isn't a windows vs apple issue. This is a (update automatically because you are lazy) issue, which means that millions of updaters are certainly possible, especially if corporations use iphones.
The user that is "stupid" enough to allow this to sneak on up them has many more secuirty issues to worry than this thing.