Gaaah! No, I'm not screaming in fear. I'm screaming out of frustration. And no, it's not frustration with the security of my Mac. It's frustration with poorly-written news articles.
I read the whole article hoping for something —
anything — about what this "virus" was. There was no info.
So what can I say? I certainly don't think it's impossible that there's another security hole in Safari — Apple took a seriously half-assed approach to fixing the last one, so it's only a matter of time until it springs up again in a slightly different form. But again, what can I say with so little info?
And then there's this:
With new Macs running the same processor that powers Windows-based machines, far more people will know how to exploit weaknesses in Apple machines than in the past, when they ran on the PowerPC chips made by IBM Corp. and Motorola Corp. spinoff Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
Wow. I didn't know malware writers exploited security holes in Intel's CPUs. Here I thought they exploited software. Silly me.
If anyone finds some
real info on this, please post/link it. My guess is that it's yet another way to take advantage of Safari's "open 'safe' files after downloading" bug...er, I mean feature. EVERYONE should turn that off, regardless of what this "virus" is.