Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 16:02 UTC
"Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system. Instead, a window opened on the screen and strange commands ran as if the machine was under the control of someone - or something - else. Daines was the victim of a computer virus. Such headaches are hardly unusual on PCs running Windows. Daines, however, was using a Mac - a machine often touted as being immune to such risks." Remember boys and girls, this story is published on MSNBC.
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2005-08-02
What browser was Daines using?
What site was he visiting?
Was he logged in as Admin?
What, exactly did the virus do?
Was it the shell script auto-execute vunerability? (Did he not have his current updates installed? Has somebody found another hole and exploited it?)
To me, this article is crying "the sky is falling" but not giving any kind of useful clues about how to avoid this sort of problem.