Mac Hunting Season Is Open

New Apple Trojan Means Mac Hunting Season Is Open: "The arrival of the Mac Trojan signals that cybercrooks have decided there are finally enough Apple systems on the internet to make attacking them profitable, according to security experts. Apple is the nation's No. 3 desktop and laptop seller in the United States, behind Dell and Hewlett Packard. And this year, the Cupertino company accounted for an impressive 8.1 percent of the personal-computer market for the third quarter, up nearly two percentage points from the same period a year ago. Evron and other observers predict that black hats will have a field day with Macs, as well as with Apple's new mobile platforms."

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Ratings. Macintosh OS User Opinions.: "User Summary 'SUre looks nice, but its way unstable' by Rlazboss (see profile) - September 17, 2006 Pros: looks cool, has cool programs Cons: unstable, freezes, overpriced"

OS X Leopard Time Machine Seems Unstable : Philoking.com: "Time Machine was the one of the features that I was most anticipating in this release. In fact, it was my number one most anticipated. I am actually quite disappointed. I was hoping it would be really easy. It seemed that way when I first booted up and immediately Mac asked if it wanted to use my WD My Book drive for the backup. So, I went ahead and set it up. Since then, I have been having many issues. I wanted my MacBook to connect to this drive as well over the network. I connected it to my desktop (via our wireless network) and it recognized it. So I started backing up. The issue I have with it, is that it is really sluggish. And, I am having issues even getting my desktop to back up to the drive. It just keeps crashing."

Mac Rumors: Mac OS X Virus/Trojan Summary: "The announcement of the release of a Mac OS X trojan/virus/worm yesterday has drawn a lot of attention, confusion and significant misinterpretation. ..... While the application was setup to trick the end-user into launching it, the resultant actions it took were far more sophisticated as it was designed to inject itself into other applications on the users' hard drive. Despite much confusion on this detail, most users were not prompted for the administrator password before the file modifications took place. "

Apple Catches Microsoft Cooties, BSOD Attacks Leopard! [UPDATE: Fix Found]: "It's a dark day, Apple fanboys. Installs of OSX Leopard have led to the dreaded Blue Screen of Death for many Mac users (sure, it's sort of happened before, but the headline cracked us up...sorry). We can't yet be certain just how widespread this problem is, but an Apple thread on the topic has 263 posts with several incidents documented through the responses."