Blueprint for a widget of mass destruction

by Volker Weber

So you think, your Mac is safe? Read this.

If you are using Safari on Tiger, thanks to the magic of widget autoinstall, combined with the <meta> tag, a slightly evil widget has been installed in your dashboard. It could be a lot worse. There's a slightly more evil widget linked lower in this page, and I think it would be possible to make a much more destructive widget. I gave you something fairly tame.

Before you continue uncheck this mark in Safari preferences:

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No kidding >

Comments

After the Firefox bug now this one.. Really scary.
I wonder how comes so little publicity is made on this very, very, serious issue.

As mac users, we better stop making jokes about windozers.
This is as bad as spyware, actually even worst as there is no known fix to it yet.

Thanks Volker to pointing it out.

Pieterjan Lansbergen, 2005-05-09

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