Companies struggle as Safari pops up on networks is the headline of a story from IDG News, which contains the amusing factoid that: "On Friday, patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies announced that it had updated its Shavlik NetChk Protect software to detect and remove Safari."
Apple, you may recall, tried to deceive users into installing its browser by presenting it as a "default update" when it wasn't already installed. This has given companies problems. Cody Wilson, a network administrator with Soy Capital Bank and Trust in Decatur, Illinois, told IDG: "I went into work the next day and I scanned my network, and my inventory software said I have Safari on 30 PCs," he said.
"This is not good; this is a security risk," he said. "We're a bank." Wilson said it has taken him the better part of a week to remove Safari from his network and prevent it from being reinstalled.
On the other hand, you have to wonder (a) why a bank's computers have iTunes (or the famously insecure QuickTime) installed in the first place; and (b) why these users were enabled to install downloads. Don't banks normally lock down their PCs?
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