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Apple malware: 6 years of crying wolf

“Three days after ZDNet ran a piece entitled ‘Coming Soon to a Mac Near You: Serious Malware,’ Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has posted, under the headline ‘Wolf!’ more than a dozen variations on the same theme,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt repots for Fortune.

“They date back to 2004 and all sound a familiar warning: Apple, having achieved critical mass in the market place, is about to get hit by the same waves of viruses, worms, trojans and other species of malware that plague the world of Microsoft Windows,” P.E.D. reports.

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Gruber’s “Wolf!” article is here.

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