parkerf3 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Not really... (Score 1) 267

by parkerf3 on Monday September 28, 2009 @11:46PM (#29576151) Attached to: Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again

I don't doubt that apple is pushing unwanted software onto their customers, especially their iPhone customers. The apple is the sign of the beast, Jobs is the anti-christ, and soon the world will end! Long live PC!

Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again 267

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 28, 2009 @08:10PM from the just-updates-please dept.

itwbennett writes "Blogger Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wags his finger at Apple for indiscriminately pushing the iPhone Configuration Utility 2.1 update out to Windows users, since it is a tool for business system administrators to set up and administer corporate iPhones — the blogger himself (and practically every other iPhone user) not being of the corporate iPhone user persuasion. But more than just unnecessary, the update actually puts him and millions of other iPhone owners/Windows PC users at increased risk by installing 'not just a configuration program, but the Apache Web server as well,' says Vaughan-Nichols. 'A Web server like the one Apple [is] adding to your PC... [is] a gateway just asking to be hammered on by an attacker. Managed properly Apache is as safe a Web server as you'll ever find, but ordinary PC users shouldn't try to manage it, and even an expert can't do anything with it if they don't know it's there.'" Reader CWMike notes that Apple pulled the iPhone Configuration Utility from the update list after a few hours.

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