It was only a matter of time.
http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104774&article=3014515
It was from a news radio web site. The headline caught my eye.
Report Says Hackers Target Macs
The rising security threat could hurt Apple, which has long touted the security advantages of its platform.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
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Apple Inc.'s Macintosh personal computers increasingly are being targeted by malicious computer hackers, a European computer security irm said.
Over the past two years, we had found one or two pieces of malware targeting Macs, said Patrik Runald, a security researcher in the San Jose, Calif., office of F-Secure Corp. in Helsinki, Finland. Since October, we've found 100-150 variants.
The rising security threat could hurt Apple, which has long touted the security advantages of its platform over those of Microsoft Corp., whose software is a perennial hacker target, The Financial Times reported.
Also targeted are Apple's iTunes digital media players and iPhone Web-enabled multimedia cell phones, F-Secure said in a report.
Unlocking iPhone security controls, an increasingly popular activity, adds to the phones' vulnerability, the report said.
Apple would not discuss any steps it was taking to counter the growing number of attacks, The Financial Times said.
But Apple said, We take security very seriously and have a great track record for addressing vulnerabilities before they can affect users.
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In fact, the only thing that actually opened up an OS vulnerability was Symantec's Norton product.
I pulled the plug on Norton Utilities for Macintosh when it sold so-called "version 7" that was actually a very slight upgrade to version 6, and so noted in the version numbering scheme.
Flagrant dishonesty is stupid, and I don't do business with liars or dummies.
There presently is not, and never has been, a self-replicating virus in the wild that runs on Macs.
True, but there aren't many useful apps that run on Macs either.
There presently is not, and never has been, a self-replicating virus in the wild that runs on Macs.
True, but there aren't many useful apps that run on Macs either.
Like...uh...Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint? Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash?
What's a "useful" app, praytell? Because every front office app out there is identical on Macs and PCs now, and has been for coming up on a decade.
Oh, yeah, and since I have Parallels, I can run Windows apps within OSX on the Intel core duo.
So what can't they run? Name some names.