InfoWorld - Notes from the Field: The real Mac security threat isn't malware -- it's Apple

Apple took more than three weeks to acknowledge the Mac Defender malware and offer a solution. That's three weeks too long

MAY 25, 2011
By Robert X. Cringely

For years it was unavoidable. All you had to do was write something about a malware infection on a Windows machine -- an article, a blog post, a question on a support forum -- and some smug Apple fanboy would inevitably pipe up: "I have a solution: Get a Mac!"

The fanboys won't be so smug anymore, and neither will Apple Inc., now that tens of thousands of Mac machines have been infected with rogue Mac Defender "scareware."

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