[Swordmaker]

After writing three lengthy paragraphs about Mac malware being found on webpages (a trojan found on a couple of Porn sites that requires the Mac user to download and install it, ignoring system warnings that what is supposed to be a Safari Plug-in is actually an application), Sophos jumps immediately into the following paragraph...

"Sophos experts are now discovering 6000 infected webpages every day - one every 14 seconds. 83 percent of these webpages actually belong to innocent companies and individuals, unaware that their sites have been hacked. Websites of all types, from antique dealers to ice cream manufacturers to wedding photographers have hosted malware on behalf of virus writers."

... without telling their readers that the malware found is WINDOWS malware, not Mac malware. I wonder what they are intending to imply by this factual omission. It's FUD.

Why would Sophos be spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt?

Could it be because they SELL Mac Anti-Virus software? Nah... they wouldn't do that...

... would they?

[Swordmaker]

It's FUD... Sophos says that Macs are getting popular so they will be getting more and more malware... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

Here is a listing of just a few of the media who have picked up on Sophos' FUD article and layed it on and spread the FUD to their readers:

ITWeek - "Lock Down Your Macs, Firms Warned

Boston Business Journal - "Sophos: Hakers Targeted Macs in 2007"

IT Business - "More Mac Malware Attacks Expected"

VNUNet - "Criminal Hackers Turn On Macs"

There are a lot more... and there will be more tomorrow... all from a FUD press release from company that has said exactly the same thing before...

All of this based on two, count 'em TWO, discoveries of a trojan horse application to be pretending be a Safari Plug-In to display porn movie files... that require no less than FOUR instances of the user ignoring warnings from the system that it isn't what it purports to be... and requires the user to install it himself.

[Tribune7]

After writing three lengthy paragraphs about Mac malware being found on webpages (a trojan found on a couple of Porn sites that requires the Mac user to download and install it,

Good point. The least secure part of a Mac is the user. That is absolutely not true for the PC.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, be glad, Macs are a growth area for the fleece seekers. ;’)

[dayglored]

"New Mac virus sent via Fax!"