[webschooner]

Tech ping material?

[TheZMan]

Just wanted to drop in and say “hah hah”.

[CarrotAndStick]

Get the $1 iPhones instead.

[D-fendr]

“relies on tricking users to download and install their malicious software”

To install and run an application still requires admin privledges and ok-ing a message about the app, along with the admin password.

This is different than viruses/malware that hit by opening an email or a website - or worms that spread through the network without any user action required.

So, as far as I know, there’s still an order of magnitude better security. And I don’t know what will ever secure the system from a user who installs unknown software on their system.

[ShadowAce]

[martin_fierro]

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[antiRepublicrat]

Sorry, I just realized I linked to a non-censored version of that pic in #8. Please kill.

[Swordmaker]

I'm just shattered. Woe, alas, alack. The world as we know it is coming to an end.

FUD SEASON
is starting early this year,
six weeks before the Macworld Conference in SF
instead of the customary three to four week season.

We Mac users should now don hair shirts and start whipping our shoulders with barbed wire because a computer security firm has announced (for the fifth year in a row) that Macs are no longer secure.

Ho hum.

They tell the world that IF a user downloads a Trojan, and IF he ignores the warning the OS provides that the download contains an application, and IF he also double clicks on what appears to be a non-application icon that resulted from his download and IF he ignores the warning that he is running an application for the first time, THEN his Mac might install a suspicious malicious application that can modify his user preferences to modify his DNS interpreter.

Since when is it news that a computer can run an application?

The first malware Trojan for OSX appeared in 2002. An application that pretends to do one thing when in actuality it does another is not news. A self replicating, self installing, self transmitting, and repeating application would be news.

It hasn't happened on OSX yet.

I really like the last two paragraphs that are intended to imply that 500,000 Mac malware has been "found," a word that implies this implied Mac malware is in the wild. How dishonest can they get?

[Swordmaker]

Hey, FUD season has opened earlier this year! We get six weeks of FUD instead of the usual three to four before Macworld... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[SunkenCiv]

"Mac's market share is now significant enough for parasites to target," security firm F-Secure said

...and the irony of that sentence is...