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Security Update 2008-002 is available

Fire up Software Update, Mac users. Security Update 2008-002 has been released. According to Apple, this update "...is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X. Previous security updates have been incorporated into this security update."

So, it improves security. How exciting. As usual, we ask you to report any problems you encounter after installing this update. Good luck, true believers! Note that this update, like the earlier Safari 3.1, requires a reboot.

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Fire up Software Update, Mac users. Security Update 2008-002 has been released. According to Apple, this update "...is recommended for all...
 

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David Jackson

Major problems with the new update. spinning wheel of death for no reason on startup. Photoshop, after effects everything is running very very slow. opening a small document takes ages. Unexpected quits. what the hell is going on...?

April 06 2008 at 5:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jim

updated w/ 208-002. have lost access to most of my apps incld onyx, quicksilver, safari, comic life, 'mail', net newswire, skitch and others. the apps show-up as 'recent items' but never open on the desktop. i'm no IT person and i've got to get these programs open asap...any suggestions on how to get tiger 10.4.11, 1.5 ghz ppc G4 system fully functional again.

March 26 2008 at 3:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andy

After installing the update, Mail keeps quitting unexpectedly not 2 seconds after launching?!?!?! Any suggestions?

March 23 2008 at 2:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Emilio

Update hosed my system drive. G5 dual 1.8, with a Seagate 1 TB drive. Invalid Node Structures, something (I'm a Windows switcher, so go easy.) Also, seems to have screwed up my ATI 9600 card. The display's gone into some sort of weird, lo-res grey raster mode, which makes it dificult, if not impossible to even read text... Bought DiskWarrior today, used it to try to get as much data as I could on to the second drive, re-partitioned the system drive and am re-installing 10.5 now... Ugh.

March 20 2008 at 11:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John

I have a different problem after the update. My Airport started acting all hinky asking for wep passwords on open wireless networks. These are networks that I was on just hours earlier.

I'm using a 2.2 macbook pro w/ leopard and all updates. I've restarted several times with the problem disappearing and reappearing seemingly at random.

Any ideas?

March 19 2008 at 10:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve Stringer

Is anyone else having trouble with the newly updated Safari 3.1 and Gmail? It's like the shortcut keys (which are disabled in Gmail FWIW) are stuck. For instance, when I compose an email and try to type in the body, the cursor keeps jumping back up to the "to" field.

This is very odd, and started the instant I upgraded.

If anyone knows of a fix or a link to report this to google, please let me know.

March 19 2008 at 7:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bill MacKenty

hey guys,

There is a known issue in 10.5 http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6779155

with ssh. Basically, try to ssh to a host using IP versus name, and you should see a big difference. Basically, name resolution is screwed up somehow, and if you don't have smart dns settings, ssh is a pain.

Try sshing with ip address instead of name and see what happens.

March 19 2008 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dianne

When I restarted after this update, my 15" PB was no longer connecting to my AEB. I reconnected and re-saved the password in my keychain but was still unable to load any pages in Safari 3.1 of Firefox 2. My Airport menu is showing that I have a connection, but nothing is happening. Not sure if my internet connection is borked and it's just a freak coincidence or if this is the result of the update.

March 19 2008 at 10:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Dianne

Forgot to say in my previous post that I'm running 10.4.11. Problem fixed. I repaired permissions on my HD. This is the first time I've ever run the repair permissions utility and had it actually change anything. There was a laundry list of items that were repaired. At least everything is working now. Thank goodness for internet access at the day job. :-)

March 19 2008 at 5:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Karen LH

The update seems to have caused Amnesty to lose track of the Weather widget. Bother.

March 19 2008 at 9:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rene van den Abeelen

I think it was the first time during the installing proces I had the Time Machine background.

March 19 2008 at 9:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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