It has been only seven months since Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.7 Lion and today the company announced Mountain Lion-the next major update to its desktop operating system. However, Adobe quickly backed down after receiving a ton of backlash from the community and promised an update in the coming weeks. For those of you unaware, Adobe recently told users to upgrade from CS5 to CS6 to avoid a security flaw in older versions of software, instead of just patching it. Unlike Adobe, it looks like Apple is devoted to keep its old products up-to-date-even if the update is a few weeks behind.
This is the first major update Apple has released for Leopard since Lion debuted last July. In some cases, the update may need to restart your computer in order to completely remove the Flashback malware…To improve the security of your Mac, this update also disables the Java plug-in in Safari.Īpple also released Security Update 2012-003 for Leopard that “disables versions of Adobe Flash Player that do not include the latest security updates and provides the option to get the current version from Adobe’s website.” A similar update was issued for Lion and Snow Leopard in Safari 5.1.7, which released with OS X 10.7.4 late last week-hit up Software Update. If the Flashback malware is found, a dialog will notify you that malware was removed. This update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware. Along with removing the Flashback malware, it also disables the Java plug-in in Safari.
Apple released a Flashback Removal Security Update for Leopard this afternoon that weighs 1.23MB. While Apple has released updates for both Lion and Snow Leopard to remove the Flashback malware that is making the rounds, the company had not released a fix for Leopard until today.
We’re also told that this new download will be for Leopard users only, so anyone on OS X 10.4 Tiger or below will need to upgrade to Leopard or something newer (like Mavericks) in order to keep on using the Microsoft-owned communications tool. While Skype has not been downloadable nor functional for Leopard users the past few days, a Skype spokesperson tells us this morning that this will soon change: “We have a Skype version for Mac OS X 10.5 users which will soon be available for download.” No additional timing details are available as of yet, but it’s good to know that Leopard users will soon be able to go back to making Skype calls and sending messages as normal. Earlier this week, concerns emerged on Skype official message boards about the Skype Mac app no longer functioning on OS X 10.5.8 Leopard (an operating system that launched the same year as the original iPhone), and a Skype representative on the forums apparently confirmed that Skype will no longer be supported on Macs running operating systems below OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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