Bug affecting Apple machines

[Guest]

this was posted by an alert in AVG, today so some think to think about,but still no word or patch from Microsoft

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I'm not a techie, but as I understand it, the vulnerability is confined to Apple machines, and cannot attack Windows machines directly. This because only Unix and Linux operating systems are vulnerable and Windows machines do not run on these.

However, if your Internet Service Provider runs an Apple server (the computer that an ISP uses to connect you to the Internet), it could be compromised and used to infiltrate and spy on any machine, including Windows machines, which are connected to that ISP as customers of that ISP. I have installed a patch offered by Apple for my iMac and I assume that they did the same for Apple servers.

[monica]

yes Steve thats right, and also some other programs may also have that software in them ,

but i think at some stage there will be a patch of some sort for win7 pc,s as well,