In the latest Safari release, a fraud site detector was added. Look in Safari's preferences under Security for the check box that enables and disables this feature.
Ryan On May 24, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: > > Hello; First, let me say that I too have not heard anything about a > security issue from apple. But, I have had a funny thing happen since > I updated to the most recent version of the operating system. There > is a site www.nationalmoonwalkdirectory.com that I have been visiting > regularly with no problem. But last week whenever i would go there i > would get a mal ware alert telling me not to visit the site. Now the > site is offline all together. It looks like maybe the webmaster did > or didn't do something to cause that. I don't know. But I am curious > as to why one week a site is acceptable and the next week its > dangerous. Just thought I'd mention this. Please send us more info > on security issues. Thanks, Max > On May 24, 2009, at 5:48 PM, John Panarese wrote: > >> >> Yeah, I'd be curious too. I haven't read anywhere about this, >> other than the usual paranoid hearsay and rumor driven assault we get >> about security. Some links and reliable sources would surely be >> appreciated. >> >> >> Take Care >> >> John Panarese >> >> >> On May 24, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: >> >>> >>> Any chance of backing up posts like this with some depth, maybe an >>> example, a link or two, anything really. A rellivant subject line >>> would've been a treat too. >>> >>> That aside I'm curious to know more. Hope you can post some >>> background on it for us. >>> >>> On 5/24/09, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Take it off line and keep it in a closet until snow leopard has >>>> been >>>> released and then if I have enough money buy snow leopard and >>>> install it. >>>> Why? Because the hacker community is specifically targeting leopard >>>> exploiting two critical vulnerabilities that are widely embedded in >>>> Leopard and it will take Apple until at least June 2010 to write >>>> fixes >>>> necessary to remove these vulnerabilities. If no more get created >>>> and no >>>> more get discovered by the malware folks between now and then, we >>>> may have >>>> a "secure" operating system to buy at that time. Strange how such >>>> a short >>>> word like if is so important. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > Max Ivey Jr. > The Midway Marketplace > Office 936-273-6960 > Cell 281-989-0448 > www.midwaymarketplace.com > maxw...@midwaymarketplace.com > yahoo messenger id midwaymarketplace > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
