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Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-02-24

At first blush, the past two weeks have not been good for the image of Apple's Mac OS X: Public descriptions of two worms and a trivial exploit for a serious software issue in the operating system appeared on the Internet.

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Triple threat to Mac OS X largely academic 2006-02-24
Penguinisto
"Many Mac users believe they are better protected than the average Windows user against malicious attacks."

...to an extent, they're right. You really have to work at it to compomise a Mac to the same point that Windows comes standard with when it comes to system-wide permissions. OTOH, no one sh...

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