The link works for me... what happens when you try it?
I thought Mac's and their OS was immune to this sort of thing. I thought Mac's were perfect. Well at least according to my Macaholic friends.
It was... but the OS10.4.1 has added a requester to approve the download/installation of Widgets. The one thing this article does not make clear is that while Widgets may be installed in the ~/Library/Widgets folder, such installation does not run them... that requires the user to start Dashboard, click on the Widget Dock expose button, and then drag the newly installed Widget onto the Dashboard to invoke it.
A malicious Widget can be easily uninstalled by removing it from the ~/Library/Widgets folder.
Macs aren't perfect... just better... ;^)>
Link? What link? Are we talking about the link to the CtNet article?
Anyway, I think this story is extremely misleading, so much so I wonder if it is intentional. Widgets do not download, install themselves and run without the intervention of the user.
It's that simple. Nobody is all of a sudden going to find that a widget has been surreptitiously slipped into their system by a malicious website and invoked all without the awareness of the user. I'd call it a crock. In fact I think I will.