bmw
May 20th, 2004, 19:02
There's been a lot of noise and discussion about the "help:" URI (and "disk:" URI) potential exploit. Here's the best article I've seen on how to immunize your MacOS X system from it.
http://daringfireball.net/2004/05/unsafe_uri_handlers
Article describes "RCDefaultApp", a really useful System Preferences plugin to download and how to configure it.
Note that the exploit is still theoretical rather than real, but a PoC is but a heartbeat away, and some bozos will put malicious URLs on their sites.
http://daringfireball.net/2004/05/unsafe_uri_handlers
Article describes "RCDefaultApp", a really useful System Preferences plugin to download and how to configure it.
Note that the exploit is still theoretical rather than real, but a PoC is but a heartbeat away, and some bozos will put malicious URLs on their sites.