On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> So this is bad, and the recent Mac OSX proof-of-concept worm was > somehow > not bad, right? ;)
The difference is in virulence. The worm required an elaborate series of steps to infect a machine, making it much less critical. The Safari vulnerability, in which "safe" files were opened by default, was much, much worse.
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