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Bill will pay out of his own pocket for this.

Consider it a goodwill contribution.

So, you bought your Windows PC, so you could save $50 instead of buying a Mac. Now, your bank account is empty. Sure, you'll probably be able to get your money back somehow. Still, hopefully, you'll wake up and realize that you get what you pay for - use your brain and buy yourself a Mac next time, okay, stupid? Life's too short to subject yourself to Microsoft's mediocrity.

Posted from a Mac with my bank account intact!

MDN MW = "poet" - I am and I didn't even know it.

But now none of these Windows users has $499 anymore...

Follower...

Ohh what a cruel irony.

Still. as the Pet Detective would say...

"LaHoo..ZeHerrs"

When is someone with the resources going to take Microsoft to court in an attempt to get there lousy product recalled?

The horror!

but... but... Joe here keeps saying that it is very EASY for Windows users to protect themselves from all this and it is an exaggeration from Mac Zealots.

Shame on you BBC for spreading FUD on the most commonly used OS in the world. If so many use Windows it MUST be the best, right? Like MacDonald gourmet food, beetles, fly on crap. All the most common things in the world.

Posted from a Mac with my bank account intact.

The linked BBC-site does not mention -Macs are not affected-; MDN how can you be so sure ? I received some very strange e-mails on my Safari running Mac ..

Oh, no. This is all too troublesome for me to think about. <buries head> I think I'll just stick with what I'm using and hope nothing like this happens to me.

What's the logic behind--"Macs are immune to this?" I hope it's true, but why?

To some computer users, the only way to get to them is by affecting their wallet. Maybe now some of them will see how much they have been fooled by trusting Micro$soft and their security weak products. With all the Billions of dollars lost by flaws in Windows and now thieves getting their credit info, maybe some of them will get it and they will switch.

The funny thing is that Windows users and Technology writers make fun of the Mac users, calling us fanatical followers. Who's more of a fanatical follower? The one that trust a system like Mac OS X, that don't have the same security threats? or The one's that follow Micro$oft and lose Billions in the process? Whos laughing now Billy boy?

Harry, read MDNs take. Both the trogen and the worm affect Win and not Mac, ''According to Symantec''. And maybe you wouldn't get so many wacky e-mails if you wouldn't post you e-mail address freely like you just did.

Good, I hate those smug Win users anyway.

Like Pat Robertson says, "we just gotta take them out"

Make a virus and wipe all their hard drives, just do it!

Thank God for Pat Robertson.

http://www.bpninc.com/evideo/video_mac_hi.mov

When is someone going to hold Microsoft accountable for their abomination of an operating system. I can understand flaws here and flaws there, but the SAME EXACT FLAWS THROUGH MULTIPLE GENERATIONS of an OS is INEXCUSABLE. I'm sorry, but hacking is a known threat of your product so design accordingly. When any other product have designs flaws, they are promptly recalled and ordered to fix it, so why not Microsoft. That company gets away with murder and the millions of people who choose to pay them anything for their shoddy products deserves what they get. Just imagine if Microsoft Windows was the only OS out there, we'd all be broke and the criminal hackers would have all the money.

It should be noted that Windows users who avoid IE e.g. FireFox, Opera etc. users are at vastly reduced risk as will not have sensitive information stored (though still a few other minor security issues) as will not have used IE to enter credit card details, passwords etc.
Non IE users could also be less at risk of infection depending on method used to inject the worm (i.e. if web site injection method used IE bug raeher than general windows bug as non IE users would not get infected in the first place).

So, might equally be written up in terms of avoid IE.

Most windows users could greatly enhance their security by using non MS browser, mail, office and webserver components as historically many exploits have used MS "add on" software as infection / propogation vectors.
This is why, when I have to use windows (e.g. at work) I try to ensure I use Thunderbird, OpenOffice, FireFox etc instead of the MS equivalent.

OK, snowy2005 I am a senior and enjoying my trouble free MAC .. somewhere in Europe .. How do i close my e-mail ?

- Posted from a Mac with my bank account intact.

-- Posted from a Mac with my bank account intact.

Posted from my G5 with my bank account intact (I got my account open in another tab).

--- Posted from a Mac with my bank account intact.

(evidently posts must be somewhat unique or they will be rejected)

These morons deserve everything they get. Keep using Windows LOSERS.

--- Posted from a Mac with my bank account intact.

how shall I put it:



Meh...

Posted from a Mac with my bank account intact. 

Posted from a slide rule with my pocket full of nickels intact! (Except for the rusty ones)

This kind of activity is what will cause the internet to eventually become government regulated.

---Posted while eating a big mac with a side of fries.

P.S. did you catch the info from Intel that their new chips for notebooks will be available in the first half of 2006...That means the first Mactels probably won´t be available until June or later of 2006. No comment from Apple.
Is the date slipping already????

justified - it already is, you just don´t know it....

I don't know, that seems to be within the time frame that Apple claimed at the WWDC. It's only wishful thinking at rumors sites that have pushed the date up to Macworld SF, or even more preposterous, Paris...

Right now, Billy G is laughing all the way to the bank. Not because he know's how eager you're all gonna be with the new OS he has coming out and that'll fix all the problems(or not), but he's laughing at all the suckers who still want to keep spending their cash with his crappy products. Yes PC user's, he's laughing at you.

why would anyone steal the identity of a mac drone? they don't really have one... well not a unique one to speak of.

Pose ted frame amok wit may bonka counting tack.

- Posted from a Compaq with my bank account -- HEY!

And this is why MDN keeps posting the info about Macs and viruses, to answer a poster on another news article. Because it truly matters.

"has probably infected thousands of victims."

Just a guess, but megabytes of info is going to hold data on many, many thousands (millions?) of people.

Looking at the OSs affected, it would appear that the overwhelming majority are 3 to 10 years old. Certainly they are in the upgrade timeframe. Having had critical data stolen from their POS Wintel, how many are going to opt for a Mac as a cure for malware? My guess is that the number will be very high. 20% to 30% shouldn't be unrealistic.

After all, a Mac mini will out perform most of these older Wintels, and it can use existing monitors, keyboards etc.

Earnest,

Did you have to have your comment approved by any authority in order to post?

If you're going to make such a grand statement, you might want to elaborate, and have facts to back it up.

“This kind of activity is what will cause the internet to eventually become government regulated.”
Yeah, like that’ll solve anything!

“I don't know, that seems to be within the time frame that Apple claimed at the WWDC. It's only wishful thinking at rumors sites that have pushed the date up to Macworld SF, or even more preposterous, Paris...”

Paris won’t happen, but MWSF is likely (and within the timeframe claimed by SJ & Apple press releases). WWDC is the fallback position. Note that SJ said “by this time next year…” He wasn’t gonna promise MWSF, but i’m certain that was his target all along, just from what he said and the way he said it.

Mack from the Post Office with a mouth full of carpet tacks!

ron: Nothing gets installed on a Mac without the admin giving a password (at least in OS X). This is how Macs can be untouched by the virus, spyware and "trojan" content we read about. I have had websites in the past download things as soon as I click on them, but they are contained on mydesktop and sit there until I throw them in the trash. A website can send a download, the Mac will just ignore it, not auto (or force) install like Windows.

As for the timeframe on the MacIntels, I think Steve would rate the first chip off the line so he can show it off. Also, I don't think he would be averse to showing the first "production" MacIntel before it is widely available.

Just a feeling I have...

~M

BG should go to jail for this. Instead, he got knighted. Go figure.

M/W: Good! As in there is a good.

"Who's more of a fanatical follower?"

Good point. Fanaticism (no, lunacy!) is stubbornly staying with the same vendor when the customer's experience gets progressively worse every day. There HAS to be a breaking point eventually.

"Having had critical data stolen from their POS Wintel, how many are going to opt for a Mac as a cure for malware?"

I wonder how many victims have dumped the Internet altogether. Why deal with the headaches and take the risks? We can only imagine how much livelier (and better) the Net would be, if the other 90% of the computing population had real safety & security online.

Now if only my details weren't repeatedly stolen from dodgey foreign countries after visiting there and used over the internet to buy useless and superfluous things from home decoration shops, racking up hundeds and hundreds of dollars debt and causing the bank to cancel and reissue a new numbered credit card three times recently. The retarded thing is, they will keep honouring the transactions, even though they know they are fraudulant.

However, happy to be using a Mac to do my online banking, I do feel safer, and rightly so!

And insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Kahn!!

Ah, I met: Bill!!

That's "meant" not "met". My hand shook as I was cringing.

Obi-Wan: Who's the more foolish: The fool, or the fool who follows him?

The windows world will come to a screetching halt one day.

I have thanked God everyday since 1984 that I'm a Mac user. Today is no different.
Again I must say that I can't for the life of me understand why home users, business, and governments the world over put up time and again put up the mess called "Windows."
MacDude, cedreca, Just Checking, point well taken.
Even if Windows didn't have all those security problems, it would still suck.
I really mean it when I say that the glaring flaws in Windows is a grave national securtiy risk.

phat...why would anyone steal the identity of a mac drone? they don't really have one... well not a unique one to speak of.

Phat--ass

Anyone who wants my identity can have it. You can pay all my debts for me.