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It bears repeating

Turn off Safari’s Open “safe” files after downloading under Safari->Preferences. There’s a program out there in the wild that can download and install itself if that checkbox is checked. It’s possible that the payload is helped along by the Flash vulnerability; I’m not sure, but keep in mind that many websites are using Flash ads [...]

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