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Stan Beer
Saturday, 21 October 2006 09:19
As has been widely reported, the virus that
shipped with some video iPods was a Windows virus. Apple was not
backward in coming forward to remind everyone of that fact on its
website and in the process set the blogosphere alight.
Indignant Windows users (and vendors) chided Apple for not taking full
responsibility for the incident as the iPod was the virus vector.
However, for every pro-Windows blog poster there was at least as many
Mac fanatics ready to hit back in true Jobsian fashion to remind
everyone that there have been no major virus outbreaks on the Mac
platform.
Anyone who dared to suggest that the Mac was itself capable of being
infected with malware risked incurring the unspeakable wrath of the
Jobs Jedi. Here at iTWire, Alex Zaharov-Reutt received a monstrous
tongue lashing and I as editor copped almost as much abuse for daring
to run his article. I don't think I remember being called a moron so
many times - not even by the Nintendo fanboy club.
Leaving aside the emotive rants of Mac fans, the facts are that Mac OS
X has been virus free for years, while the score count on Windows just
keeps piling up. The suggestion that this is because virus writers are
not targeting Macs is ludicrous.
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