Actually, it is down to $445....
Ugh. I just tried to contact an Apple representative about this, and as soon as I described the problem, they hung up on me. This bug goes deep, man.
If this calibre of crash is a fast spreading rumour, OS X is in good shape indeed. It only brings down an app, not the whole system, and only doing something most users never will.
But importantly, because the effect of the bug is to stop the application from running, it is not something that can be exploited for malware.
If this calibre of crash is a fast spreading rumour, OS X is in good shape indeed.
It only brings down an app, not the whole system, and only doing something most users never will.
Exactly, haven't typed 'File://' into anything for 60 years until this post and probably won't have too until I die.
Definitely worried....................NOT!!!
Slow news day?
I'm going to go ahead and guess that this will affect 0.00001% of all humans on this earth. Just my guess though.
"Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I stab my eye with a spoon".
"Don't do it then. ".
This hasn't crashed any Mac except those who read the article and had to try it out.
Yeah, this is SO utterly embarrassing. Most of the world is required to type 'file:/*' into most apps these days.
Their stock is going to plummet
If you have iCloud synching go to either the iPad or the iPhone and delete the message with the error. Then it should propagate to the Mac and the message with the error will be gone.
Open Text Edit
Type File:///, crash
Crash Reporter comes up
Typed that I typed File:/// and Crash Reporter crashes
Damn!!!
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By the way, to type the above message I had to do it in Terminal and copy / paste into the browser, cuz otherwise, not even this post I would have managed to do.
This is a serious freaking bug!
Ugh. I just tried to contact an Apple representative about this, and as soon as I described the problem, they hung up on me. This bug goes deep, man.
If this calibre of crash is a fast spreading rumour, OS X is in good shape indeed. It only brings down an app, not the whole system, and only doing something most users never will.
I should have learned long ago not to defend Apple on these clearly anti-Apple message boards. *sigh*
Welcome Mac's to starting to be exploited.....
*Thank goodness it's only Apple's apps...* ... At least, you can use Firefox or Chrome for the meantime anyway..... If you use itunes (90%) well.... we're already hosed :/
Are you claiming that that a crashing application cannot be exploited for malware ever or just in this situation?
This sort of bug should not even exist in an operating system past beta. I don't think Windows has even had anything this trivial.