Mac Issue: Security Update 2006-004
Saturday, August 12, 2006 by Kelly Sutton In hopes of being a less-jaded Windows user and less of a Mac martyr, I should report my latest computer problem. And for once it was on my Mac.
After installing this most recent security update released from Apple, Apple Mail and iChat refused to work. I did some poking around and it turns out that the OS X Security Update 2006-004 is corrupting the Java-based system Webkit. From my experience, any Apple product that attempts to retrieve information from somewhere on the web.
Thankfully, there's a relatively quick fix. You only need to reinstall the OS X 10.4.7 patch. Here are links to the Intel patch and PPC patch.
I guess I also can't trust Apple to release security updates that won't break my computer. Is this the beginning of the next Microsoft?
Reader Comments (2)
No...but if you think about it Apple is already the next Microsoft; since Microsoft is pretty much just copying Mac OS X with Vista. So, really, Mac OS X is the next Microsoft...if all of those PC using folks are lucky.
Luckily, by the time Vista launches (sometime next decade), Apple will have moved on to bigger and better things. Did you see the WWDC Keynote? Leopard is looking AWESOME; the Vista/Leopard comparisons were funny too.
While I agree that Leopard looks awesome, I'm becoming more and more aware of little things that I remember Windows having a few years back. (Just little problems here and there, I'll write more on this later when I figure out a substantial list.)