World of Apple
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Apple Security Update Plugs Leap.A Holes

Just a few minutes ago Apple released security update 2006-001, in particular the update is described as fixing holes that the Leap.A trojan exploited.

iChat. A malicious application named Leap.A that attempts to propagate using iChat has been detected. With this update for Mac OS X v10.4.5 and Mac OS X Server v10.4.5, iChat now uses Download Validation to warn of unknown or unsafe file types during file transfers.