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8 May, 2005

Automatically install malicious Dashboard widget

Posted by pwestbro 18:54 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Computer

This is an interesting web page that describes how a web page can automatically install a Dashboard widget.  It also looks like Apple does not provide a way for you to remove an installed Dashboard widget. 

This web page installs a moderately malicious widget.  In order to remove it, you will have to manually remove it and restart the Dashboard.

Apple need to prevent these types of attacks.

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