Sunday, November 04, 2007

Congratulations Mac Users - You’re Now Popular Enough For Malware, W00T!

I think I’ve made my opinion clear numerous times about the holier than thou, my computer is better than yours, Mac users.  I’m not talking about Mac users who have their ownership egos fully in check and know that their computer is only as good as the user, but the people who have annoyed me for years going on and on about how Macs are so safe, that they don’t get viruses, don’t get hacked, yadda yadda yadda.  All of us sane people knew that it was because Macs were only a small percentage of the computer market, and they were more expensive than PCs, so your average idiotic virus creating jerk wasn’t interested in bringing down like thirty-seven computers.  They’d rather ruin 37 million computers.

Congratulations, Steve Jobs, your marketing has worked.  Your computers are now getting more popular, so you’ve finally made them worthwhile to damage.  “Apple on Thursday confirmed reports of pornography Web sites where hidden software, once downloaded, could take control of an Apple computer.” The timing of the Trojan horse suggests there are more to come, say some computer and Internet security professionals. As Apple’s popularity rises, “the bad guys are taking Macs seriously now,” wrote Bojan Zdrnja, of the Internet Storm Center, which is led by the Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies.

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1. Too bad, I liked being one of the thirty seven.  And NOW I’ll have to worry about dowloading porn!

   Hey, have you been watching Ugly Betty?  I just finished Season One and it was just a perfect tv show.  You must check it out if you haven’t.

   Nancy  on  11/04  at  09:27 AM

2. See, I didn’t even know you were a Mac person, because you aren’t one of those Mac people.  It’s just your computer, not your raison d’皻re.

   We watched the first two episodes of “Ugly Betty” and it was too sitcommy for us to want to spend a whole hour with it.  We liked it, but we didn’t liiiiiike it.  Have you seen “Samantha Who?”?

   Flippy  on  11/04  at  10:31 AM

3. I got hooked on Betty after just one episode.  It was more like a soap opera than a sitcom, to me.  I haven’t seen Samantha Who but have taken note of your recommendation.  If it’s new, I may not be able to watch it till it comes out on dvd.  I hate missing the beginning.

   Nancy  on  11/05  at  12:41 PM

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