gman wrote:
and don't forget that a massive hole in Apple Tiger OS was just exposed as well. Apparently the Safari web browser will happily download and run executables without prompting the user in any way.

OK, Mac and Linux apologists, start your excuse-making!



Of course since it's Apple, an excuse can easily be made saying "You can just turn this off and you wont be vulnerable".

Slashdot | Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets

I'm just curious...has Apple been paying attention at all to the internet.  Come on, at least they could learn from Windows mistakes somewhat.. 

BTW, I clicked using IE. Nothing happened.

mVPstar