I've been saying for years now that Mac users will begin to see hacker problems if Apple's market share gets big enough to make it worth the trouble.
Pretty much every time I said it, I was met with derisive dismissals by Mac users, who smugly (there's no other word for it) touted Apple's imperviousness to such things.
Events are proving me right, of course -- and I'm not a a good enough fellow to avoid saying, "toldja so."
Okey doke, but before you get too smug remember this thing is of the psychological type where a user has to be tricked into installing it. It is not something that can just sneak in there without help. I don’t think Mac users ever said that Macs were impervious to that.
The new versions are supposed to be able to self-install but I think, not sure, if the user is logged on as a non-adminstrator the machine is still safe. We should all do that anyway.
I am always hearing you guys call us “smug”, etc., but I never see that. I guess you think simply saying “Get a Mac” when someone is talking about a PC problem is being smug. All the smugness I see is Windows users bragging about how they can build a machine that is better and faster at half the price. Sometimes Mac users point out that once apples are compared to apples (pun intended) the price difference is slight or non-existent. Since I have no desire to build a computer I simply say, “If you guys want to do that, go to it. I’ll just buy a Mac and be done with it.”
You Apple trolls have been saying the same thing for TEN YEARS... and for TEN YEARS it has not happened... and really has not happened yet. This is a particularly effective TROJAN... nothing more. It STILL requires the user to click through an installation procedure to install it... and they can STILL abort that process. It is NOT self installing.
The only difference is that it no longer requires an administrator password IF THE USER IS RUNNING IN AN ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT! If the user is running in a standard account it will STILL require an administrator name and password to install.