[the invisib1e hand]

That's getting old.

if you put java on it, you get your problem. So the issue is java. I suppose that too fine a point for most to bother with.

[BikerJoe]

if you put java on it, you get your problem.

So "the sandbox" leaks?

[dennisw]

if you put java on it, you get your problem. So the issue is java. I suppose that too fine a point for most to bother with. 

So I can run Java on my homebuilt quad-core w 8GB ram PC and Apple users cannot? I spent a grand total of $160 last Christmas on memory, motherboard and CPU while Apple buyers (read suckers) pay thousands for machines that will get infected if they run Java. What a scam

[moehoward]

"if you put java on it, you get your problem. So the issue is java."

Exactly. This 600,000 number is more inflated than Obama's "jobs created" numbers. Anyone buying into this handwringing probably also believe NBC's Zimmerman tape is the real deal.

The conditions that have to be in place for an infection to even be possible, might apply to a small fraction of users. And because the non-Admin variant causes so much system instability it would be discovered quickly and takes mere seconds to eradicate.

Now that Apple is the overwhelming machine of choice, at some point we might actually get a bug to worry about, but this ain't it.