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New Mac OS X trojan horse goes live, acts as Adobe Flash Player updater application

The bad news: There’ll always be people designing viruses, trojans and malware for computers. The good news: It’s quite a bit rarer on the Mac OS X side of things. Even so, the latest attempt from digital wrongdoers to infect your Mac has been spotted taking on the look and feel of Adobe’s Flash Installer. […]

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Apple releases MacBook SMC Firmware Updater 1.4 for older MacBook, MacBook Pro notebooks

Late Thursday, Apple released its MacBook SMC Firmware Updater 1.4 for older MacBook and MacBook Pro models solves a charging issue that takes place when using the latest MagSafe power adapters. The update, an 880 kilobyte download, requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.4 to install and run. If you’ve tried the update and noticed […]

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How-To: Work around Mail program errors in Mac OS X 10.6.4

Following the update to Mac OS X 10.6.4, a number of users are experiencing an error where Apple’s Mail email client will not open. Per CNET, when the application is launched, a message stating “Mail version 4.3 (1081/1078) cannot be used on Mac OS X Version 10.6.4” is displayed and the program shuts down. The […]