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Airport Extreme Update Pulled, But Damage Already Done

Written on October 23, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 21 people have commented

Updates turning out to be harmful rather than helpful are nothing new, and it’s beginning to look like you can add Apple’s latest Airport Extreme software “fix” to the list of the potentially damaging.
Complaints from commenters and bloggers around the net are beginning to pile up, yet Apple remains silent on the status of the [...]

A chink in the AirPort armor?

Written on October 04, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 11 people have commented

Is it possible the AirPort Extreme base station isn’t catching all the malicious traffic bound for my home network? I just opened Console to check on an issue I was having with lookupd, but I was distracted when the ipfw.log firewall log file popped up with quite a lot of blocked attempts.
How many? Try 7831 [...]

New Airport Extreme/Express update today

Written on August 14, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 46 people have commented

If you’re like me, you’ve had seven (or more) kinds of problems with your Airport Extreme. Maybe today’s update will fix it for you, even though Apple’s description is terse as usual, offering only “general fixes and compatibility updates.”
While you’re at it, don’t forget to pick up last week’s Boot Camp 1.4, which seemed to [...]

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