In article <1i6wxdq.ek8njg1mcow70N%peter@nospamplease.dk>,
peter@nospamplease.dk (Peder B. Pels) wrote:

> Derek Currie <derekcurrie@mac.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > It's a new age folks! The very (very) first Mac malware is now
> > available in the wild.
>
> The Windroids are right - the Mac is behind Windows. When it comes to
> malware, it is... what... 12 years lagging?
>
> Oh the horror :]

Ah, there you are Peter! My ISP's news server is slow at updating.

Uh, yeah. I'd say so. This one piece of malware makes the grand
total, including old Mac OS malware (which doesn't work on Mac OS
X) and the proof-of-concept malware, to 65 (SIXTY-FIVE) pieces of
Malware for Mac in its ENTIRE history.

Comparing that to the over 140,000 pieces of malware for Windows,
we still have something over 80x more malware for Windows on a
per user basis. Frickin' horror on wheels! The Frankenstein OS!

But Vista is taking a stab at stopping this problem. The way it
is doing it is blatantly annoying to the user. Typical Microsoft
user-hostility. But it's better than the wide open doors of the
past. MS still need to kill their idiotic code structures for
Office macros as well as all of Active X. The Blue Pill threat is
till looming as well. (Look it up on the net if you don't know
what it is kids).

If, somehow, the Windows community ever moves over to 64 bit
Windows, all the old 32 bit malware won't work, just as all the
old 32 bit ANYTHING won't work. Which of course is the Catch 22.
If you go 64 bit you become free of the old malware, but you have
to buy all new software. So, you get burned one way or the other.

:-Derek

--
Fortune Magazine 11-29-05: What's your computer setup today?
Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been
equalled for ease of use, and I want my computer to be a tool,
not a challenge.
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/>
[Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'.
He spearheaded the movement to modernize computer software
engineering in 1975.]