Existing users, 
This is a review of Security Update 2007-009 v. 1.1 for the PowerPC.
I was one of the fortunate (few?) who had no problems with the original Security Update 2007-009. However, when I "upgraded" (ha!) to 1.1, and restarted, Safari would not open; Mail would not open; even Transmission wouldn't open. I didn't take the time to check other programs. Nor did I have the patience to attempt various generic cure-alls, such as repair HD, repair permissions, et al. Fortunately I had a main-HD backup (thank you SuperDuper!), which I implemented.
This is not the first time a Security Update has caused tons of folks major problems. IS IT REALLY SO HARD FOR APPLE TO GET IT RIGHT? HOW COULD THEY HAVE MISSED DETECTING THIS FLAW? Sheesh.
Ease of Use: Poor. I wasted over an hour and a half restoring my main hard drive.
Support/Documentain: Poor. You call this support?!
Features: Poor. I like to be able to open Safari, Mail, etc.
Quality/Stability: Poor. Self-explanatory.
Price: Poor. Cost me precious time.
Apple Security Update
For Leopard Mac OS X 10.5
Version: 2009-006
Can't Apple do better than this?
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: nemodomi Monday, December 24 2007 @ 04:35 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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hmmm..... - Jon_Link_871
I always wonder about posts like these. Most people don't have problems with security updates— in fact a security update has never once in my many years as a Mac user caused anything I'd call a catastrophe. I think once there was a small glitch, but it was fixed pretty quickly. The worse thing to happen ever was the crappy 10.4.10 update that made my Mac unable to connect to my router, but even that was pretty easy for me to fix.My sense of things are that people who have huge problems like this have deeper problems underlying their computer. I won't go into how I think those problems got there. I will say that 90% of the time something goes horribly wrong with my Mac it's my fault for screwing with things — 5% is from bad 3rd party programs and the other 5% is a bad Apple programming.
Apple isn't perfect, but it isn't like they are going about things half-***ed.
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