While there may not be that many viruses out there for the Mac, there are still Trojan horse apps to make life a little bit harder. Here’s another. Per AppleInsider, a new Trojan horse hidden in a Mac OS X application can steal sensitive user data and take control of the computer’s GPU to generate […]
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Along with yesterday’s Mac OS X 10.6.8 update, Apple also released Security Update 2011-004, which brings some of the same patches to Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), as well as fixing some Leopard-specific security bugs. Per Macworld, the update patched 28 bugs in systems ranging from AirPort to MobileMe, QuickTime, and subversion. While many of […]
This came more or less from the horse’s mouth. Per AppleInsider, Apple has told some customers who need replacement machines they may need to wait four to six weeks for new hardware due to limited supply. A number of customers who have purchased special build-to-order machines online are reporting very long wait times for replacement […]
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Cocktail 4.3.3 (Tiger Edition) Released
On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 4.3.3 of Cocktail (Tiger Edition), Cocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 1.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: Major improvements on the clear potentially harmful files procedure. Added clearing of the latest (F […]