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Paranoid Android can protect you from this potential vulnerability until Apple makes an official fix available. It does this by watching the URL schemes that are requested and delaying them until you've had a chance to say whether you'd like to proceed or not. If you know that the url that's being loaded is legit, go ahead, but if it looks suspicious, Paranoid Android gives you an opportunity to cancel it.
A vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X results in a potential situation in which a malicious person could execute arbitrary commands on your machine, such as deleting your home directory,
A vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X results in a potential situation in which a malicious person could execute arbitrary commands on your machine, such as deleting your home directory,
What's New
Paranoid Android can now notify you when a file is launched with a custom application (one other than the default one for the document's file type). This does not affect opening documents from within applications.
Updated to mitigate the recent Safari/LaunchServices exploit
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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Paranoid Android can protect you from this potential vulnerability until Apple makes an official fix available. It does this by watching the URL schemes that are requested and delaying them until you've had a chance to say whether you'd like to proceed or not. If you know that the url that's being loaded is legit, go ahead, but if it looks suspicious, Paranoid Android gives you an opportunity to cancel it.
A vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X results in a potential situation in which a malicious person could execute arbitrary commands on your machine, such as deleting your home directory, or doing other harmful actions. This vulnerability involves the use of URL "schemes". These are the part of a web address that specifies what program should be used to handle the address.
A vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X results in a potential situation in which a malicious person could execute arbitrary commands on your machine, such as deleting your home directory, or doing other harmful actions. This vulnerability involves the use of URL "schemes". These are the part of a web address that specifies what program should be used to handle the address.
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Anonymous reviewed on 07 Jun 2004
And it is definitely paranoid, as in unnecessary, since there are no exploits as yet that PA would help against.
Frankly, this is one of the most annoying, intrusive programs I've ever installed, and while it has its place, it's certainly not on *my* Mac.
Anonymous reviewed on 26 May 2004
Something is wrong with die APE...
fix your permissions, delete caches, etc... use Apple's Disk Utility to fix permissions, use OnyX to delete user caches, etc.
Anyway, should anyone want some serious reading about APE and why it is safe, go check
http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000342.php
Anonymous reviewed on 26 May 2004
Anyway. I find this one fix to be great. It is certainly easier than RCdefault or Moreinternet, as here you don't have to configure even the slightest thing. You just install and forget, because those exploits wont be a problema anymore.
Also, I have many of their haxies and must say that none of them has given me any problem. Everybody should read the APE module readme, where it explains that it cannot bring down the whole system because "Application Enhancer operates in user memory space, which means it cannot affect the system itself or processes belonging to other users".
Another good thing of Paranoid Android is that in fact, ir asks teh user wether or not to open those files that might be exploits, which is great, because I don't want to completely disable helpers or lose their functionality (as would be the case should I choose to change AppHelper to TextEdit, for example).
Finnally, Unsanity guys are very responsive to suggestions, which is great, and Jason Harris, the developer of this freeware haxie (if I'm not mistaken) is extremely professional.
Anonymous reviewed on 26 May 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 25 May 2004
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14618
Now, if you want to read more into that, go ahead. But don't accuse him of making insinuations, etc., about APE just because he chose not to use it.
Anonymous reviewed on 25 May 2004
No crashing for me on 17" iMac.
Anonymous reviewed on 25 May 2004
You be the judge!
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Anonymous reviewed on 22 May 2004