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Apple Releases Second 2006 Security Update

Apple Releases Second 2006 Security Update

by , 4:45 PM EST, March 13th, 2006

Apple on Monday issued its second security update of the year. Applicable to Mac OS X v10.3.9 and v10.4.5 running on Intel and PowerPC Macs, the release notes point to three specific issues fixed for Tiger and Tiger Server users: unsafe Javascript-enabled documents loaded from a remote site; the ability of an attachment in Mail to execute arbitrary code when opened; and the ability of a Web site to execute arbitrary code when viewed.

The release notes don't cite any specific Panther issues, but Apple did say that the update improves the security of several components within Mac OS X in general. The last three Security Updates are included in this one.

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Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:24 pm Subject: I installed it

Sure seems to make things snappier

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Close Name:Guest
Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:29 pm Subject: Snappier?

It's a security update. Why would that make anything snappier? I think you're just imagining it.

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Close Name:Guest
Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:40 pm Subject: Snappier

It was a joke.

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Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:42 pm Subject: It's a joke

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Guest wrote:
It's a security update. Why would that make anything snappier? I think you're just imagining it.

It's a joke. A lot of people report snappieishnish after an update, it may or may not be imagination.

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Close Name:Guest
Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:00 am Subject: No

Well mine actually does feel snappier. I even ran the Macworld benchmark for it. As you can see, even though it's was only just a hair more snappy (and that within the error margin,) the perceived snappishness is way up.

Before Update
Actual Snapishness: 4.3
Perceived Snapishness: 4.6

After Update
Actual Snapishness: 4.35
Perceived Snapishness: 4.9

Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Macworld

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Close Name:dynamicv Posts: 51 Joined: 06 May 2004
Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:38 am Subject: Well, mine now boots XP!!

Beat that.

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Close Name:acdc1174 Posts: 723 Joined: 16 Apr 2004
Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:28 am Subject: Re: Well, mine now boots XP!!

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dynamicv wrote:
Beat that.

If that is true, then this wasn't much of a security update.

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Close Name:Guest
Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:01 pm Subject: Installing patch = iPod problems?

Now iTunes hangs when trying to update my iPod.

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