Threats for Safari Users on Windows

“Blazing performance”, “Tabbed Browsing”, “built in RSS” and a lot of other features sometimes get on to the fading clouds given that the number of negatives race to dim the light on the positives. The recent headline grabber safari V.3.1 is said to have a couple of software vulnerability issues and a lot of other quirky bugs seemed to have surfaced preceding and following the launch of the browser. One such vulnerability was the fact that the files on a windows machine (especially the long named ones) can be exploited to cause a memory corruption which is made possible using these loopholes by a savvy attacker.

Another such loophole that was reported was that attackers or hacker scan stream feed their own content on the recipient’s browser without changing or redirecting the URL – think of it as browser spamming. We have only scratched the surface of the mounting number of complaints being found the Safari’s “Support Forum”.

There have been various other problems being recorded at the support forum like “The downloaded file not being found”; “The pages are fast enough but the scroll takes a long time, which is very irritating”: “It has no security features and doesn’t even have ad-blocking capabilities”.

Apple is reportedly working feverishly on these bugs which are now a staple exercise following any major software launch.