Safari vulnerability

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I use Camino for my browser so the threat to my personal machine is low…but I fired up Safari and went to this test page and saw that Safari is indeed problematic:

http://secunia.com/advisories/18963

The “fix” is to open Safari preferences and uncheck the “Open safe files after download” checkbox. I would suggest using Camino or Firefox as another reasonable workaround. You might also want to make a bookmark of the Secunia site since it monitors many (8,000?) products for security vulnerabilities.

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Update: This is “fixed” with the latest security update available from Apple.