Apple Response to Trojan Warning [Updated]

I hope Apple starts collaborating with the Open Source community to fight trojans and viruses... If they don't, we could be almost as bad off as Windows users.

Mac OS X Security Update 2004-04-10 . . .

Wait for it . . . Wait for it . . . . . Wait for it . . .

apple is rad.

i am not too worried, apple will get it fixed in time. i always feel safe knowing that hackers are more likely to attack 95% of computers instead of 3%. . . though the first person to do it would probably get pretty high recognition. . . not good recognition though. but mac users are also smarter and more careful than M$ users. . . right?!

Glad Apple is on the case

This should encourage us that Apple does take these things seriously :)

patch should be easy in theory. apple just has to make finder behave consistently - if it displays a file as one type, it should act on it as that type when double-clicked. (this used to not be a problem when finder didn't depend on extensions to figure out what the file type icon to display.)

Wait a second . . . maybe it's just me, but does it seem weird that Apple would give a statement to MacCentral???? That's seems odd. Wouldn't it be on their website in the support section or in a press release? Could this "statement" have been made up??

Atleast Apple, unlike Microsoft issues regular security updates to it's operating system. Microsoft would have to issue security updates multiple times in a 24 hour period to keep up though. I'm betting Apple will put out a security update to deal with this...

Wait a second . . . maybe it's just me, but does it seem weird that Apple would give a statement to MacCentral???? That's seems odd. Wouldn't it be on their website in the support section or in a press release? Could this "statement" have been made up??

It's a general press release. The same statement can be found on other sites:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/09/HNintegowarns_1.html

Maybe it's just me but what's the friggin' big deal here? No really?! I mean, a file that's executable on ANY computer system, be that a peecee craptacularbox or a Mac running OS X, OS 9, or hell, even Linux that is launched by a dummy without thought to where it came from can be launched and harm caused. Why is this a big deal at all? I'm lost? And OS X is still one of the most solid systems but any system, if someone launches something to attack it FROM it, I mean, so what? That's been the way I think all the way back to Basic and DOS. Go back, there's nothing to see here or better yet, just don't believe the hype!