Voip Blog
Mac might want to get his handkerchief back
Monday, October 09, 2006
I love the Mac-PC commercials that Apple has been putting out recently and it isn't because I run a Mac. Well, actually I do run Mac. And Windows. And Linux. Does that make me a techwhore? Ahem...moving on.
Anyway, one of my all time favorites is the one where PC catches a virus and Mac bails him out with a loaned hankie. Used to be, you never had to run virus protection on your Mac...you could just get out there on that big old information superhighway and essentially leave your doors unlocked and the windows down.
Now, however, we get headlines like this, and this. Popular computer-to-computer voip internet phone application Skype is the latest to join up, having to patch a vulnerability that threatened one of two outcomes: the voip program crashed or another person could potentially gain control of your computer. Skype versions for Mac V1.5.0.79 and older are affected by this vulnerability, but you can get the fix here.
