Story: A worm belies Apple's perfection

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For someone suggesting others 'take a breath of reality', you seem to be in a dream world yourself - perhaps the same one as ZDnet.

Apple have not classed this as a worm; a couple of security firms have differed (out of how many?). Whether this is classed as a worm would depend on the defenition you use, which would depend on which dictionary your using. You could go on splitting hairs over this indefinately, but you'd be missing the point:

This is not a threat, this is not a vulnerability, this is not a 'flaw in OSX'. If an OS allows a file that you have manually inserted to run, once you have specifically, expressly, manually authorised it by entering user name and password, then this is not a fault, flaw, vulnerability, or anything else that would warrant any kind of comment were it found on Windows platforms.

The fact that you would have to manually authorise this to run negates any possibility of the kind of threat that will inevitably hit a Windows PC. Regrettably, therefore, you are talking crap (again, like ZDnet). Whether the others posting here would use the term 'worm' is immaterial. This article is indeed misleading and biased.

OSX is proven once again to be safe. In the time this article took to write, be published, and have replies posted, however, a few hundred more virii for Windows have no doubt entered the world. Care to comment on that, ZDnet? Care to ring MS for comment? No, didn't think so. I think the point here makes itself, nes pas?

My head is a respectable distance from my a**, and reality is smelling pretty sweet (for mac users, anyway)

A Mac AND (regrettably) PC user.

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