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For more than a half decade, the Windows-enraptured tech media has been banging on a drum about the imminent arrival of Mac viruses. As proof of this coming wave, they always cite researchers employed by anti-virus vendors who recount vulnerabilities found in Mac OS X or occasionally trojan horse malware designed to dupe Mac users into manually installing software that intentionally causes problems.
This is like warning the population of the threat of a global pandemic outbreak based on press releases issued by a homeopathic group concerned that isolated reports of individuals hitting themselves with a hammer might portend a greater public health crisis, unless more people coat themselves with 30x ferrum phos obtained from one of their practitioners.
I know we shouldn't be smug, but that paragraph is very funny...
This morning, CBC Radio 1 had a report on the Conficker virus and of course, they couldn't stop there...no, they had to go on with "even those of us in Steve Job's back pocket now need to worry" and reported on the trojans with the warez iWork. Without stressing that this WAS ILLEGALLY obtained software that carried the trojan and any idiot could easily avoid it by not downloading ILLEGAL software. ARGH. They also didn't bother differentiating between a virus and a trojan - the first takes advantage of holes in the OS/software and often requires very little action on the part of the user and the second relies on the user actually installing it. On purpose. Huge difference.
