I'm surprised we haven't had a busload of loony fanbois posting "Apples can't have have worms inside" (heh).

An Apple PC is just like any other PC, it can get a virus.

"Smug" is indeed the correct choice, ed, as you would know if you had any opportunity to peek up from you Inqy chores. Also, interestingly enough, the correct collected noun for Apple fanbois what have been infected by an err, Trojan, is "Smeg". Go fargure. Podd people are that lot.

The typical Mac user wouldn't have a clue about how to download it anyway. That's why they run OS X on there PC. Could also be said it's why Apple sells them Updates to it's shinny OS, they wouldn't know how to download and wouldn't a clue of how to apply it anyway.

"1. Downloading software from a public torrent tracker. Stupid, stupid, stupiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid."

Uh, no.

You just can't be a stupid user to begin with...

Unfortunately for mac users though..............dot dot effing dot

Honey if you think that Mac users wouldn't download anything for free, take a look at someone's iTunes Library and their Applications folder some time.

Even at the company I work for, I still catch our Mac users doing the same thing I catch our PC users doing.

*Everyone* likes free. In this case "free" came with a Trojan. The general assumption that Mac users are any different from any other type of user in the world is blatantly erroneous and typical of the "self-righteous Mac user" phenomena.

Firstly I don't think Mac users would download for free. As far as I know they usually like to waste huge amounts of money on Apple products. Apparently this is part of the charm, somehow. Also downloading torrents is indeed stupid because that would be too complex and too risky for them. It's not surprising that the few that went this far got their virus-proof apparatus infected.

Glad to see he doesn't let minor details like the facts get in the way, or bother to research the original source. If he did he'd discover that the company who reported it happen to sell an AV package that they claim will kill it. Reformat the hard drive? Where did that one come from? Not CNET or Intego.

1. Downloading software from a public torrent tracker. Stupid, stupid, stupiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid.

2. You have to reformat to get shot of it? Ouch. Nice recovery process, Apple.

Actually, those are the only cock-ups worth mentioning.

Although I do find it laughable that Apple are playing down the problem by spinning with semantics, saying "'snot a virus, so nerrrr!" because it's actually a trojan. Technically accurate, but your typical user is not going to be able to make the distinction between virus/trojan/worm etc.

Oh and I'm loving your choice of cellective noun.

Anyone stupid enough to download pirated Apple software desires whatever happens to them.