Steve Jobs really cares about your computers' Security - like NOT

Apple software update icon -- is just "there"

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:46:46 GMT

As a follow up to the article on ensuring you are up to date with Apple Quicktime, the icon that will

re: Steve Jobs really cares about your computers' Security - like NOT

bradley — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:57:50 GMT

Apple Quicktime comes in on applications. I need to patch it... and there's currently no corporate way to do that.

It impacts a SBS network as it introduces risk of unpatched software.

Adobe doesn't provide an easy way to patch some of their software as well. Granted the headline was provoking yes, but it's a complaint against any software vendor that doesn't provide an easy way to patch.

This isn't about "Apple" per se.. more of a vendor doing a lame patching.

Blogs are personal... and free speech indeed.

re: Steve Jobs really cares about your computers' Security - like NOT

libertyrd — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:15:33 GMT

(did I leave the unfinished Yoda comment before submitting? if I did, it was to end up being a compliment)

re: Steve Jobs really cares about your computers' Security - like NOT

libertyrd — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:13:53 GMT

I can take the MS koolaid, tats, underwear and whatever other 'religious' symbols are required for such devotion to Redmond...I can take the fractured syntax...I can (barely) take all the QuickBooks posts. But the feeble Zune vs. iPod show, and now this horrible (HORRIBLE!, I say) Quicktime problem as an even more feeble shot-across-the-Jobs-bow attempt! Like no thanks.

You do wonderful SBS work and are obviously hugely dedicated & talented (and make Yoda look. But QuickTime? So don't use it - is it even a *required* program in your world. Sure Apple's effort here is lame. But, for example, DST is going back & forth on the lists for what now, the 3rd or 4th week?

Free speech for you and me, and for me it's killing the RSS feed as much as I need/enjoy the odd SBS post.

P.s. sorry to disappoint the first guess, but I am not a Apple fanatic or even Mac owner - all I own is the (now ancient) original iPod Shuffle. Neither an I a MS-basher. I live & work in the Windows & sometimes Novell world.

re: Steve Jobs really cares about your computers' Security - like NOT

indy — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:19:55 GMT

This drives me crazy as well. I specifically didn't install the update software because I like to control when I update my end-users.

re: Steve Jobs really cares about your computers' Security - like NOT

Tyler Reguly — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:15:22 GMT

Being a tri-OS user and a skeptic, I found this hard to believe... so I had to test it for myself...I even checked the Apple Support Downloads page... Even the Methods Described by Secunia (after reinstalling QuickTime) were unavailable to me..

As a result I have contacted quicktime support and Apple PR to inquire about this issue.