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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Another security risk

I just read another article on PCWorld. Security analysts and Microsoft are saying not to use Safari, the Apple-made web browser, on your PC.

There's a security flaw in it, combined with IE, that allows malware to control your computer. Now, since you can't uninstall IE because it consists of some system files, your best bet is to get rid of Safari.

Apple has already said that they don't consider it a risk, so they won't be doing anything to fix it- which is pretty selfish of them, but what can you do? So, Microsoft is going to be releasing a fix, but they don't have an ETA on when.
How about that? More proof that Microsoft actually cares more about their customers than Apple.
Anyway.

Just in case, I should warn you- If you have iTunes on your computer and/or an iPod, check to make sure Safari isn't installed. For a while, Apple was 'sneaking' Safari in with iPod and iTunes updates without telling users.

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