benjymouse writes “The Register has picked up on a contemporary Microsoft safety bulletin which urges home windows users to “limit use of Safari as a web browser unless the precise update is to be had from Microsoft and/or Apple”. This controversy comes after Apple has officially refused to promise to do anything else in regards to the carpet bombing vulnerability within the Safari browser. essentially, Apple does no longer see unsolicited downloads of lots of and even thousands of executable files to users’ desktops as being a safety drawback.” Now whereas downloading 100 information to your personal computer won’t automatically execute them, Microsoft’s position is that a secondary attack may execute them for you.
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