An Apple Bug
Microsoft Corp. just issued a heads-up to its clients concerning the use of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser after several reports were presented about the occurrence of a rather dangerous system intrusion.
Apparently, a flaw found in Apple’s browser, known as the Safari bug, permits attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim’s computer and fill its desktop with potentially malicious executable files. The intrusion is also known as carpet bombing and the dangerous executables appear to users as normal Windows executables.
The flaw can lead to the complications presented earlier only combined with an unresolved bug in Internet Explorer. The IE bug has been reported to Microsoft more than a year ago and the connection with Apple’s flaw was discovered just last week.