Spoke too soon?Scavenger wrote:'Course Safari eliminates 100% of browser hijacks and spyware from web-sites...
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...
At least this is a real exploit and not something silly like the, "Ooo, I downloaded an unknown 100K application with the Word icon from a warez site, ran it, and now my files are gone" "exploit" of last week.
As far as I know this exploit has not been used to actually hijack a browser or install spyware. It remains a proof of concept. So there still really isn't any hijack or spyware software to worry about on a Mac. But this is a worrisome hole that could be used to install such software.
At least this is a real exploit and not something silly like the, "Ooo, I downloaded an unknown 100K application with the Word icon from a warez site, ran it, and now my files are gone" "exploit" of last week.
As far as I know this exploit has not been used to actually hijack a browser or install spyware. It remains a proof of concept. So there still really isn't any hijack or spyware software to worry about on a Mac. But this is a worrisome hole that could be used to install such software.
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