Story: A worm belies Apple's perfection
Posted by: jbelkin (Friday 5 November 2004, 9:03 PM)
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A UFO could crash into the power pole outside your house, causing a surge and thus destroying your Mac.
So far after 11 months of this year, the same number of mac users destroyed by UFO is equal to the number of mac users with a real infection (any of any kind - not just malware).
That number would be ZERO.
The odds so far are EXACTLY the same. There are things identifed as UFO's (whether you believe it's weather or aliens) and things identifed as malware. That exists - however - so far, these two things do not exist on a Mac together.
Yes, if someone breaks into your house and loads software on your computer, that's potentially dangerous that's hardly Apple's fault. If someone breaks into your house and steals your cash, you blaming the international monetary system?
As for the ratings - it would be redundant. Every mac is perfect for somebody on this earth - only blockheaded Pc users bored of trying to break into Macs would find the perfect opening to write uneducated malarky. Who needs it when we have the GUARDIAN and now ZDNET UK :-)
Do you need to rate a kiss by a beautiful woman?
Do you need to rate a winning goal?
No.
Redundant. Sure, there are some people who don;t want to be kissed by a beatuful woman - hey, that's fine - we just don't to know you or your opinion - it's that simple.
But we would like to know what you think of the itrip or the MS optical mouse.
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Apple's recent products and software are the very... BJMC -
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" Last week saw one of the first malware exploits... Debbie Jenson
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Unix scripts are not worms. Please get your facts... Phil
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What they said about Opener is that it is not a th... Doug Petrosky
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You gotta love "Staff" articles. What's wrong? Hu... Anonymous
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A worm? Are you kidding me.... I thought you... Dan
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First manually installed worm! WOW! That's the bi... Anonymous
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You guys just won't give up on this virus/wor... Steve
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Does anyone think that there is not an editor... Mort Blort
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"When anyone refuses to engage with reality, refus... M. Burt
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Whoever wrote this garbage (the Microsoft dir... Zato
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I can't believe you'd say things like this! What g... Tyler Dimicco
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The author of this article obviously didn't do his... Anonymous
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A UFO could crash into the po... jbelkin -
Ok, PC guys. You're the experts on these things. B... Anonymous
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Sounds quite biased to me. No system or OS is per... Anonymous
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well, its pretty hard to stop a program that was d... christoph manz
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Your refrence to Apple denying that "Opener" is a... Gary Toews
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"As good journalism demands"? You don't know the m... Steve Chen
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"Not what the rest of the world thinks, but does t... Phil Russell
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Silly combination of nit-picking and whining, info... Anonymous
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uhhh, Apple's products are rated all the time by... Anonymous
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errrr, technically it is a worm despite all of you... I own an apple
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For someone suggesting others 'take a breath... bystander
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