[goldstategop]

Bunk. No one has a seen a *nix* virus in the wild. The only way to run a Trojan Horse on a Mac is to download one and run it. Bottom line: a Mac is still a lot safer than a Windows PC.

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[IncPen]

Alert the forces, men...

[coconutt2000]

Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links promising to deliver pictures of an unreleased update to a computer operating system.

How come I get the feeling Mr. Daines clicked on the link to get the pictures, unzipped them, and then double clicked them. Then for some reason he probably entered in his admin password when the so-called pictures required his password in order to display.

If anything endangers a mac, it is the complacency of the user base, many of whom don't understand the power of their admin password, and what it means when a supposedly innocent program or file they got off the internet or from an email or chat program asks for it.

[Turbopilot]

You may want to clarify your statement to say that a new Mac in a typical as-shipped configuration is generally less vulnerable to common malware than a new Windows PC in a typical as-shipped configuration. Someone reading Bottom line: a Mac is still a lot safer than a Windows PC might accuse you of making an overbroad and inaccurate blanket statement.