[DM-MUG] Safari RSS Security bug for 10.5 & Windows

[John Rearick]

Other RSS news readers for the Mac that seem to be popular is  
NetNewsWire ( http://www.newsgator.com/INDIVIDUALS/NETNEWSWIRE/ ) and  
Vienna ( http://www.vienna-rss.org/vienna2.php ).  I use NetNewsWire  
myself.  Both are free.

John


On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Bryan Baker wrote:

> The other "fix" for this is to simply set another RSS reader to be  
> default - I switched to Mail for the moment.
> It's been "different" using Mail for RSS (and I'm kind of an rss  
> junkie) but it's certainly workable as a temp fix.
> One cool thing is it sorts into date threads for you which helps to  
> organize things if you haven't been looking in on a feed for a while.
>
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:37 AM, David McLaughlin wrote:
>>> I am not experiencing any problems with Safari/10.5.
>>
>> It's a security bug.  If you go to a web site that exploits the bug  
>> they can basically look at anything on you Mac.  You will not  
>> "notice" the problem.
>>
>> Another solution is to use Firefox
>>
>>> Should I wait till an "official fix" comes from apple?
>>
>> Since I personally prefer Safari over Firefox as a browser, I  
>> installed RCDefaultApp as indicated by the site
>>
>>
>> http://brian.mastenbrook.net/display/27
>>
>>
>> With Apple, sometimes they patch security holes quickly and  
>> sometimes it takes several months.
>>
>> The only reason I brought up this one at all, is that this  
>> particular security breach has a wide scope (the contents of you  
>> Mac being exposed) if someone happens to take advantage of the bug.
>>
>> Sorry if this doesn't help you decide what to do.
>>
>> David D. McLaughlin
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