I’m the farthest thing from a Mac fanboi, but I think this isn’t indicative of anything other than a shift in the social computing sphere. Apple has an increasing market share, and haxX0rs are going to tailor exploits more for those machines.
Also count on M$ coming out in the coming months to say something along the lines of, “See, Win 7 IS more secure,” when in reality it’s just that more people are wise to schemes on Win machines. Mac users have heretofore thought they were immune or less likely to have problems, but with this new batch of malware, they’re going to have to wise up like the Windoze users have over the last 15 years.
For the record, I’m a Linux fanboi.
Completely agree. I’ve been saying it for years, but the macbots told me...no never. Besides any virus will need to be installed with the admin password.
Clearly that it no longer the case.
Microsoft can say whatever it wants about how secure their product is and how great Windows 7 is. Fact of the matter is Windows 7 is nothing more than Windows Vista Service Pack 4.