“Let’s get something straight, Macs have a noob-friendly OS, problem is there are only 11 applications that run on Macs. FACT.”

hahahaha.

ok.

1) yes, its n00b friendly, but also incredibly capable for power users. xp and vista arent very n00b friendly, and break when you try to do something really complicated.
2) besides games, i run:
final cut
shake
ms office
ilife suite (more than 1 app, but we’ll call it one)
adobe cs3 (likewise)
toast
parallels (yes, i use XP on occasion, just for backward compatibility reasons, and cause Eve’s mac client isnt supported on my macbook – dont bother with it on my macpro though)
logic studio (at least 4 apps, but…)
reason
recycle
ableton live
cubase sx
shedloads of AU instruments and plugins (no, really, im not listing them)
native instruments komplete (theres another handful of apps as well as the plugins)
metasynth
amplitube

so thats at least 16 apps, if youre being particularly conservative on how you describe an application…

then theres what i think of as utilities; firefox, compression tools, a couple of flavours of download manager (one for big music apps, one for film rls etc), blah blah.

then theres games and emulators. i didnt switch to macs for games (i have a ps3 and a wii for that, and i got tired of trying to keep up with the pc gamer market a long time ago – keeping a pc up to date is an expensive game with little reward), but still i find theres a good sized handful of them in my applications folder.

so lets get something straight, youre a muppet.

as for this trojan, it really didnt bother me. i got a security update and as far as im aware, my macs are safe. if anything were to go wrong though, 1) any damage to the actual macs would be fully covered and 2) i dont buy stuff online, so the worst they can get on me is my email password, so they can read some very boring conversations between me and my dear old mother. thatll get them nowhere fast.

i love how, whenever theres a security alert for apple, pc users are quick to say ‘told you so’ and then abuse mac users for being fanboys. if mac users did the same every time there was a windows security alert, the web would grind to a standstill.

for the record, i dont think theres anything wrong with pcs. i have two. i just dont use them for anything taxing, like recording music, cause i dont trust them not to crash.

You’re an idiot and ill informed. This trojan does not require the user to insert their admin password.

@22 It’s a fault in the article, this hasn’t been patched yet.

Ff you are stupid enough to download/run a 3.1MB virus, you deserve it. Still not as complicated and easy to install as Windows viruses though. Don’t see the big deal other than getting attention through headlines.