http://tomgpalmer.com/2006/02/16/macattack/ Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:18:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://tomgpalmer.com/2006/02/16/macattack/comment-page-1/#comment-4454 AndersM Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:33:40 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=1155#comment-4454 Per Macintouch, an easy way around one of the recently discovered attacks is as follows - Disable the "Open 'safe' files" option in Safari preferences Use a different web browser (e.g. Camino, Firefox) Rename the Terminal program to something else (e.g. "Terminal123") - [or create a zipped archive and delete the original (Control-click on Termianl in Applications>>Utilities)] Be extremely wary of what files you download and/or open. Per Macintouch, an easy way around one of the recently discovered attacks is as follows -
Disable the “Open ’safe’ files” option in Safari preferences
Use a different web browser (e.g. Camino, Firefox)
Rename the Terminal program to something else (e.g. “Terminal123″) – [or create a zipped archive and delete the original (Control-click on Termianl in Applications>>Utilities)]
Be extremely wary of what files you download and/or open.

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