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Security Update 2004-09-16

MacFan26 said:
Hm, mine did say restart.

Interesting about the FTP link thing. Was this the entire reason for the update? I don't understand what the security risk is.
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Of course, 30 seconds after I posted that it popped up 'you must restart'

sigh. oh well, open mouth insert foot.
 
:p i just finished cloning and updating a Mac lab with 30 Powermacs this morning before this update showed up

at least now i finally have an excuse to try out Apple Remote Desktop 2
 
Another so soon - we've just updated 1.1 - could have not have rolled the fix into this one?!
 
invaLPsion said:
After updating my dual 2.5 didn't restart...

Had to manual shut down then restart...

hmmmmmm :cool:
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Mine kind of half shutdown. Desktop went away...screen went to sleep then nothing...oops---wait....here it comes..lol...it took a few minutes. ALL CLEAR! Whew.

Edit: Also, it seems after just about every update, the CPU temp readings go up about 40 degrees.. strange. I'm going to wait a bit then do a hard shutdown.
 
Still have that black video issue with my iSight...

For whatever reason my iSight doesn't work with iChat. No matter what I do (incl. iChatUSBCam & the IOXperts Driver) iChat only gives me a black image from my iSight (1.0.2 Firmware). The Webcam works fine in any other application. Anyone got an idea?
Regards,

Ahmed
 
Tuttle said:
Restart?!?

Get your act together Apple. An iChat patch does not require a restart.
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It's more a matter of putting the patch's contents into a staging area so that they can be loaded into the correct place during the restart. Besides, there are two pieces to iChat--the iChat application and iChat Helper.
 
spikymohawks said:
y does macrumors need to post these security updates on their homepage. it could at least be on p. 2. Maybe cause they dont have enough rumors anymore... hint hint macrumors
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Agreed. It has settled into a news site, and there's plenty of those out there. I pretty much use it for the chats.

You would think that as many people as there are working for Apple, working for Apple vendors and outside marketing/advertising people that there would be more rumors than there are.
 
I almost thought that is was a 'real' update for iChat... like 2.2 or something. ;)

Oh, well, it doesn't seem any slower... come to think of it, I've never had any problems with the patches, OS 9, or most things people complain about. Maybe I just have "the touch." LOL :)
 
Porchland said:
Agreed. It has settled into a news site, and there's plenty of those out there. I pretty much use it for the chats.

You would think that as many people as there are working for Apple, working for Apple vendors and outside marketing/advertising people that there would be more rumors than there are.
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We haven't "settled into" anything, as far as I've seen. We just have to go on what credible leads we're given and those have been mighty sparse lately. We're not going to start making stuff up to get traffic like some other sites do, though we often do report on them and give our assessment of its probability.

Plus, the rumor community is so quick to jump on something that a rumor is often submitted to all the sites at roughly the same time and we all have the same info.
 
Poeben said:
Mine kind of half shutdown. Desktop went away...screen went to sleep then nothing...oops---wait....here it comes..lol...it took a few minutes. ALL CLEAR! Whew.

Edit: Also, it seems after just about every update, the CPU temp readings go up about 40 degrees.. strange. I'm going to wait a bit then do a hard shutdown.
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How Do You know what Your CPU Temp. Is??
 
izzle22 said:
How Do You know what Your CPU Temp. Is??
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Im pretty sure he uses a temperature monitoring app, there are plenty of them, but only some versions of some models support them... Example my iBook... some PPC750s (800mhz) have temperature monitors that can be read by software, my does not.
 
point665 said:
Im pretty sure he uses a temperature monitoring app, there are plenty of them, but only some versions of some models support them... Example my iBook... some PPC750s (800mhz) have temperature monitors that can be read by software, my does not.
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Thanx! Do you know if there is a monitor for G5 powermac?
 
It is hilarious that some people get so pissed off because they have to restart their Mac...
 
invaLPsion said:
After updating my dual 2.5 didn't restart...

Had to manual shut down then restart...

hmmmmmm :cool:
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My ibook sorta restarted, it sat at a blue screen with the 'rotating circle of lines' thing at the bottom

then I nuked it from orbit and restarted, came straight back up.


my Cube on the other hand, went through without a hitch.
 
My iBook restarted fine and booted up faster than normal but thats probally because minutes before hand I did the 9-07 update.
 
invaLPsion said:
After updating my dual 2.5 didn't restart...

Had to manual shut down then restart...
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Two Macs here waited a very, very, very long time at the blue screen with the rotating blades of impending doom, but eventually they did reboot on their own.
 
MoparShaha said:
Software updates are a big deal, and I appreciate it being on the front page. If you haven't noticed, Macrumors is a community, and being such, it is a forum for many topics. There is not a censor in place to limit things only to "rumors".
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News is what MacBytes is for. MacRumors is for rumours, no? This isn't a rumor. Why even have MacBytes? I've seen no difference in the news that I've seen. I don't visit MacBytes because I don't have to.....it seems like all the important stuff is posted at MacRumors anyway.
 
something tells me we will see another x.1 update for this security update :D


People have been having issues with they iSight not displaying video in iChat. :(



Works fine for me no problems, then again I don't use iChat :)
 
Apparently some people like to keep their system up 365 days a year even though there's nothing running in the background and neither is it a server. Hmmm...

I'm gonna skip this patch. Not having any probs w/ iChat as is.
 
MacFan26 said:
Hm, mine did say restart.

Interesting about the FTP link thing. Was this the entire reason for the update? I don't understand what the security risk is.
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According to the security article that is the exact reason for the update.
Security Update 2004-09-16

iChat
CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0873
Impact: Remote iChat participants can send "links" that can start local programs if clicked
Description: A remote iChat participant can send a "link" that references a program on the local system. If the "link" is activated by clicking on it, and the "link" points to a local program, then the program will run. iChat has been modified so that "links" of this type will open a Finder window that displays the program instead of running it. Credit to <aaron@vtty.com> for reporting this issue.
Availability: This update is available for the following iChat versions:
- iChat AV v2.1 (Mac OS X 10.3 or later)
- iChat AV v2.0 (Mac OS X 10.2.8)
- iChat 1.0.1 (Mac OS X 10.2.8)
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