The New Apple Security Update Looks Sound

They posted Security Update 2004-09-07 via Software Update. I like waiting for a week or so, let the bleeding-edge updaters get thier paws on it. Avoided a lot of pain last year when Apple actually had to pull a security update because of all the problems it had (it made the news). The next several updates were good to go. This last one generated complaints of FTP not working, and other things, so I waited.

Just now saw that they have a version 1.1 on that Security update and the feedback from users is looking a lot more positive. I'll give it a few days and bring it on in.

There's a lesson here, kids; no need to break your neck to get that security update (unless you're a Windows user, in which case you are debatably better off even if the update does have problems). Let the early adopters pound the bugs out of it for you. You don't seem to get bonus points for being the first out of the box.

And, before you update, think: is my setup working fine now? If it is and there are no problems, it's usually profitable to hesitate until we can see which fan the waste material is going to hit. With OS X, anyway, you aren't any worse off, and with all the viruses coded to kill Windows (stlll no known OS X viruses (I mean real stuff, not proof of concept or macro 'viruses')), you're pretty safe running OS X.