Snow Leopard Updated in Anticipation of Lion

From PC World: Apple last week released the final feature update for Snow Leopard as it prepared users' Macs for the upcoming Lion upgrade set to ship in July.

Included in the update to Mac OS X 10.6.7 were patches for 36 vulnerabilities in Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server.

Apple also issued a security-only update for Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, that fixed 13 flaws in the 2007 operating system.

But most Mac users will be interested in the update because it's a prerequisite for Lion, the $30 Mac OS X upgrade Apple plans to sell through the Mac App Store in July.

At the top of the list of changes in 10.6.8, Apple put "Enhancements to the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion."

Apple did not elaborate on what had changed in Mac App Store.

Because Lion will be sold solely through Apple's e-mart and weigh in at 4GB, some Mac users have complained that their Internet connection won't allow them to download the upgrade.

Other improvements and non-security bug fixes ranged from additional VPN reliability to a stability fix for Preview. Apple also shipped new signatures to detect and delete variants of the MacDefender "scareware" , worthless programs that pose as antivirus software and try to frighten people into paying up to $80 to get rid of persistent alerts.

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