Just saw this article over at The Register about the virus turning 25.
Elk Cloner, which spread between Apple II computers via infected floppy disks, has the dubious distinction of the first computer virus1 to spread in the wild. The malware is thought to be the work of Rich Skrenta, a 15-year-old high school student from Pittsburgh, who released it in July 1982.
So when ever a fan boy starts talking about how secure OS X is, you can remind the that it was Apple that had the first unsecured computer in the world.
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Thats because windows wasnt around in 1982, so apple was the easest target. And if you dont like safari so much, why did you get it?
First of all, I didn’t want Safari, it installed by it self. [http://www.coderjournal.com/2008/04/safari-developers-no-common-courtesy/] Second of all if Apple is going to make itself a browser, they better has hell make sure that they are binding the browser to file types that they can render (i.e. HTML) not XML. Third, Steve Jobs has some nerve to assume that everybody wants his other software because they happen to like iTunes. I mean what kind of nerve does it take to install software on somebodies computer in the background with out asking, just to gain some market dominance, and open holes that didn’t exist before. Oh yeah I know what that is called, it’s called MALWARE and TROJAN WORMS, so don’t come here preaching to me about if I didn’t want Safari why did I install it. I wouldn’t install that abomination of product, that Safari is, if I wasn’t some how tricked or forced in to it.
Stop drinking the kool-aid and come out in to the light and see that the turds that Apple puts out (i.e. Safari) also smell just as much as the turds that any other software maker puts out.