A serious security flaw in Mac OS X showed up today. Mac OS 9 users are not affected. It could allow unscrupulous webmasters the ability to delete your home folder and everything in it just by visiting a webpage.
For now web browsing could be dangerous.
Fixes:
Apple will issue a fix soon. Not sure when.
There is a band-aid fix available. Email me if you want it and I will attach it or come over and install it. Here is the link to the fix file if you want to do it yourself: http://homepage.mac.com/olliewagner/dgtgf.dmg
Create a dummy user just for web browsing and don't run your web browsers from your main account.
May 19, 2004
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