PC Tools iAntiVirus aims to be Mac specific

With the recent trojan scare PC Tools’ timing for the beta release of iAntiVirus for Mac could hardly be better. While there are a variety of anti-virus applications for the Mac, iAntiVirus seems to be particularly designed to reduce resource usage by simply ignoring virus signatures for Windows…

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Security Update 2008-004

Along with the 10.5.4 update, Apple has just released defense Update 2008-004 for users of Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). According to Apple, the update “is recommended for all [Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)] users and improves the protection of Mac OS X.” You can download that update for the following systems:…

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ARDAgent setuid allows root access, but there’s a sort-of fix

Updates: See the end of the post for current info.

We’ve been getting quite a bit of e mail since yesterday’s anonymous Slashdot posting of a protection problem with ARDAgent on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and there’s plenty of Twittering going on by the issue.

Here’s the deal: ARDAgent is the…

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Safari ‘carpet bombing’ attack cipher in the wild

The Safari “carpet bombing” blended-threat vulnerability discovered in May could be more dangerous for Windows users with exploit cipher available online.

Mac users are not affected by the threat.

The exploit takes advantage of the fact that the Desktop is Safari’s default download locatio…

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