Safari Flaw Worse Than First Thought, Microsoft Warns
This
article in PC World cracks me up. The Safari bug can cause software to be downloaded – not run – just downloaded. It is referred to as a “carpet bombing bug” because it litters the desktop with files that can be executed. A separated Internet Explorer bug, which was reported to Microsoft more than a year ago – causes the potentially malicious software to be run.

Now, Safari is the the Apple computer browser. Microsoft – the king of insecurity – is warning us about a flaw in the Apple web browser that can cause problems for Microsoft Windows computers. Sounds shoddy – what’s wrong with Apple that their software is causing problems for those wonderful Microsoft computers? As it turns out … nothing:

So as I see it, Microsoft has had a serious known bug for more than one year that can cause arbitrary programs to be executed without the users permission. Apple has another bug that was recently discovered – which allows files to be downloaded to the computer – which are then run by the Microsoft bug.

What we have here is a moderate Apple bug and a major serious Microsoft Internet Explorer bug. Microsoft is trying to deflect attention from it’s own more serious flaws and trying to make Apple look bad.