The Mac Was Never Invincible in the First Place
January 29, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Desktops, Laptops, Ramblings of a Gadget Geek
Juan over at The AfterMac asks “Is the Mac Not Invincible Anymore?” To be brutally honest, this is the kind of question that is misleading at best, and naively smug at worst.
The focus of Juan’s article is a Mac OS X trojan that allows its maker to secretly take control of a computer. Estimates place the number of infected Macs at around 20,000, as of last January 21.
To be fair, Juan’s question may have just been a figure of speech, based on the widely-held impression that Apple computers are safer and much more reliable than the PC. As someone who …read more
