Updates galore for Apple users today
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That’s right, updates galore for Apple users today as the shiny white Apple mothership spreads 9 software updates for its little gremlin clan users. The updates include everything from your nitty little Daylight Savings Time update to your full blown security minded update.
The update fixes one issue that I believe I may have personally experienced:
On systems running Tiger or Panther, the update addresses a vulnerability in iChat’s AIM URL handler that “may lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution,” according to Apple. The bug was announced on Month of Apple Bugs as “Apple iChat aim:// URL Handler Format String Vulnerability” on January 20.
One downside to choosing to update during the day is that the Updater software requires that users restart their machines. Personally, I’d rather save the restarting for the wee hours of the night for when I’m not using. If you see one of these annoying pop-ups after making the mistake of clicking update, open up Activity Monitor and kill the updater once the download and installation aspect(s) are complete.
Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 was updated to 5.1.3 today as well.
Isn’t a restart good?
restarts pwn, if its a mac, it was restarted before i could get back from taking a piss.
Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo here
I just hate quiting the video conversion, browser, downloads, iTunes, Photoshop, TextMate project…
There was an update for Apple Software on Windows as well. Just thought you should know. =)
my restarts aren’t bad at all compared to my PeeCee(s) … being mostly an Apple user though I must admit we get a bit spoiled with the lack of delay and the always on usability thus making restarts seem to take years compared to the 5 seconds it usually takes to get “active”.
(my current uptime before this update was/is 18 days 4 hours and 47 minutes)
and on an exiting note..
9.2 megs to fix Day Light Savings Time….. wtf?
Come on, why not restart on the very moment?… I like to restart my Mac from time to time, it gives me time to stand up and see through the window, reminds me that there is still a world outside…
Instead of killing the process in Activity Monitor, you can just select the updates you want then choose “Download Only” from the Update menu. This will download the packages (probably to the desktop) and you can then install them at your leisure.