everyone’s been talking about this mac virus lately, in fact this news might be a factor in several dips of the stock in the last few days. but i wonder why doesn’t someone actually examine the true validity of this “threat”
first of all this “trojan” comes by way of some porn site… well although there are some statistics with very impressive numbers in light of the fact that mac platform still comprises of only about 12-16% of the world computer systems i’d say that most of the mac users would probably not be affected by this due to simple mathematics.
second, the “trojan” actually asks you to install something… ok, well if you go to a porn site (that’s most likely already inundated with pop ups, advertisement and all sorts of other nonsense) and you are being asked to install something to your computer you probably should NOT do it. and if you do, then perhaps you deserve all that comes after…
in adition, this is only a trojan, which means you have to install it, so once again not really a computer virus… since by definition computer virus is a program “that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user”
In short, mac users have nothing to worry about, and, if you want to make sure you are protected from all sorts of stuff then you are browsing the web i encourage you to deploy OpenDNS on your home router (or computer itself) and use their free phishing and filtering software.
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